NEW YORK — E. Jean Carroll didn’t hold back her true feelings to Donald Trump’s lawyer after a jury found his client liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.

“He did it — and you know it,” the longtime advice columnist said she told Joe Tacopina on Tuesday as he shook her hand and congratulated her team on winning the case.

Carroll, who dedicated the verdict to “every woman who has suffered because she was not believed,” on Wednesday said she was still digesting the significance of her win.

“There’s sort of a feeling of victory. That at last somebody has held him accountable in a courtroom. It’s such a mash of overwhelming emotions. It’s hard to put it into words,” Carroll said on CNN.

Jurors took less than three hours to award Carroll $5 million in damages after determining Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll on an unoccupied floor of Bergdorf Goodman 25 years ago and defaming her decades later after she came forward.

Trump didn’t attend his trial or take the stand, despite vowing to cut a golfing trip short to “confront” her at the trial. Jurors saw him in action in his combative videotaped deposition and the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape.

The jury found Carroll’s lawyers did not present enough evidence to prove Trump forced sexual intercourse during the incident, meeting the rape standard, which his lawyer celebrated as a win. Tacopina said it meant Trump wasn’t legally branded as a rapist. He said he would appeal his sexual predator status.

Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan said she wasn’t concerned about the pending appeal of the verdict, telling NBC his lawyers didn’t have anything to work with.

“I’ve rarely felt more confident about an appeal than I do about this one,” Kaplan said. “They have no legitimate arguments for appeal.”

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