“Playground” drama threatened to tank Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial on Friday — when one juror asked to quit after claiming childish antics had made deliberations “unfair and unjust.”

Juror No. 7, described as a 25-year-old “computer kid,” told the judge he’d heard other members of the panel gossiping about one of their own in an elevator at Manhattan Supreme Court after deliberations Thursday.

“The experience I’ve had in the day-and-a-half here, in good conscience, I don’t think this is fair and just,” the juror told the court Friday morning when he was brought to the witness box to explain why he wanted to be dismissed. 4

He described the chaotic scene behind closed doors as “playground stuff,” with some on the panel of seven women and five men ignoring fellow jurors as

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