An aspiring model tormented by heroin addiction hanged himself in a Brooklyn playground early Friday after foretelling his suicide on Facebook.

A jogger discovered the body of Paul Zolezzi, 30, dangling from the monkey bars in Mount Prospect Park playground near the Brooklyn Museum about 7a.m., police said.

Hours earlier, Zolezzi had updated his Facebook page with an apparent suicide note, saying he was "born in San Francisco, became a shooting star over everywhere, and ended his life in Brooklyn. ... And couldn't have asked for more."

Zolezzi's mother, Stephanie Zolezzi, told the Daily News her son had been in a downward spiral since a broken engagement two years ago.

"I would say that people get so lonely, so delusional, that all they want to do is be remembered," she said from her home near San Francisco.

"He probably wanted to be remembered in a big way, to do it dramatically. That's what drugs will do to people."

She said her son - who had tried acting and modeling with little success - was busted in San Francisco last fall for buying heroin and skipped town.

He stayed in Portland, Ore., and then 10 days ago came to Brooklyn, where he had lived before. He crashed on the couch of friend Melissa Lopez, who said she was disturbed by his "dark" behavior.

"I think he was really sick," Lopez, 33, said, explaining Zolezzi had been talking to himself. "But I was in shock because you never think somebody is going to go that far."

Zolezzi's father, a schizophrenic writer, threw himself off the Golden Gate Bridge in his 40s, so his mother worried about her son's mental state and drug use.

She tried to get him to check into a Christian drug rehab center, but he balked. She had not seen him since September and didn't know he was in New York until police called after finding her number in his cell phone.

"I didn't know what was going on in his life. All I knew is that he knew I was always trying to pray for him," Stephanie Zolezzi said. "He needed an adjustment to his ego. He couldn't give up the fantasies about what he wanted his life to be."

Her son broadcast some of his disillusionment on Facebook in what the social-networking site refers to as "status updates" - short messages that can be seen by other users.

"Paul is wondering, what unspeakable act did I do in a previous life to deserve this one?" he wrote in late January.

"Paul is going to be the first person ever to hang himself on the way out of Portland! Everything here sucks!" he wrote just before coming to New York.

The page was apparently pulled down last night.

After he updated his status for the last time at 8:40 p.m. Friday, a clueless buddy apparently couldn't tell if he was joking about ending his life.

"Are you dying? or just staying brooklyn?" the friend commented on his Facebook page. "I hope its the latter."