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‘Happy Days’ star Erin Moran dies at 56

Erin Moran, a co-star of the TV series “Happy Days” whose life spiraled into homelessness in 2012, was found dead Saturday night in Indiana. She was 56.

Details of her death were not released.

Moran was just 14 when she was landed the role of Joanie Cunningham, Ron Howard’s kid sister, on the ABC show in 1974.

America watched Moran grow up on the program, which ran until 1983.

She also co-starred with Scott Baio in “Joanie Loves Chachi” from 1982 to 1983.

“Oh Erin… now you will finally have the peace you wanted so badly here on earth,” one of her “Happy Days” castmates, Henry Winkler, a k a “The Fonz,” tweeted Saturday. “Rest In It serenely now… too soon.”

Howard tweeted, “Such sad sad news. RIP Erin. I’ll always choose to remember you on our show making scenes better, getting laughs and lighting up tv screens.”

But Moran never again approached the success of “Happy Days.”

After appearances on “The Love Boat” and “Murder She Wrote,” she had no screen credits from 1986 until 1998 and only three between ’86 and 2008, according to IMDB.

In recent years, she was in the news for her troubled private life; she was living in a trailer park in New Salisbury, Indiana when she died, the Daily Mail reported.

In 2012, reports said Moran and her husband, Steve Fleischmann, were evicted from their trailer in Indiana by his mother, who was tired of her “hard partying ways.’’

“Erin was going out to bars and coming home at all hours of the night, sometimes with her rowdy bar friends, and Steve’s mom just couldn’t take it anymore,’’ the National Enquirer wrote, citing a source.

In 2012, Winkler reached out in an ultimately failed attempt to get her a part on “Arrested Development,’’ his latest TV show, the tabloid said.

Moran did get some good news that year when she and “Happy Days” colleagues Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Don Most and the widow of Tom Bosley, settled a lawsuit with CBS for $65,000 each.

But she’d been bouncing between friends’ couches and cheap motels, The Post’s Page Six reported in 2012.

Her small screen love interest, Baio, said he hadn’t kept up with her, telling Fox News in 2012, “I have a job to do; I have a wife and child to take care of.”