Jennifer Wilbanks wasn't just running away from her wedding, she was running toward something — an old paramour with whom she had a steamy sexual relationship.

The bolting bride set her sights on New Mexico sometime during her three-day cross-country sprint from the altar because it's the home of a short-lived fling, several sources told The Post.

"She's a crazy girl," said Kendrick, who said he had a brief — and sexually charged — relationship with Wilbanks.

"It was a couple dates a couple of years ago," said Kendrick, who spoke to a reporter as he exited a local supermarket — with purchases that included a copy of a recent People magazine with Wilbanks' bug-eyed mug on the cover.

"It wasn't serious. It was what it was."