Drena De Niro believes in a mother’s intuition.

The actress remembers the morning of July 2, 2023, and how she felt “completely distressed, and I had no idea why.

“I woke up, and I was just physically a mess. I couldn’t concentrate … I was so worked up,” she told Page Six in an exclusive interview from her Tribeca home.

Drena, whose dad is actor Robert De Niro, felt so high-strung that she decided to lie back down while calming music played. “And that’s when the doorbell rang.”

It was an NYPD detective who came to tell her that her only child, Leandro DeNiro Rodriguez , had died of a drug overdose , just shy of his 20th birthday.

“This detective stood there, and the whole world as I knew it collapsed,” Drena said.

As for the officers who had to tell her she’d lost her only child,

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