The mother of the one-year-old twins who died when they were left in the back of a hot car in the Bronx recalled this week the moment her husband told her the tragic news —  “screaming” when he realized they were “gone.”

In her first full interview since her heartbreaking loss in July, Marissa Rodriguez told the “Dr Phil” show that she has “been so angry” since the deaths of daughter Mariza and son Phoenix.

“I don’t want to be here. I don’t want this to be my story,” she sobbed in a preview clip of the episode due to air Thursday. “I just couldn’t understand how it happened.”

She told Dr. Phil McGraw how her husband, Juan Rodriguez, 39, initially made what sounded like a routine phone call to arrange their schedules for picking up the twins from daycare.

“He told me ‘Alright it’s your turn to pick up the kids’,” Marissa recalled, saying her husband, an Iraq War veteran, was going to a military event.

“He generally brought the kids to daycare but we switched off who picked them up,” she said.

“I said, ‘No problem, I’ll pick them up,’” she said, thinking nothing of it as she returned to work making calls with clients.

“He called me cellphone back again and I just ignored it because I was working,” she told the show.

“I realized he had left me a voicemail, which he doesn’t normally do.

“And then he called again and I said, ‘OK it’s important,’” she said, hanging up on her client to call her husband.

“And I heard him say they were gone,” she recalled.

The dad — who was supposed to have dropped off the twins at daycare at 8 a.m. — only realized his deadly mistake when he was driving away from the Bronx Veterans Affairs hospital where he is a social worker.

“He pulled over and was screaming,” his wife told Dr. Phil, revealing that the “police did not allow me to see the children.”

The dad is facing two counts each of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

Days after the tragedy, his wife released a statement calling it a”a horrific accident” and insisting, “I still love my husband.

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