‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’ actor Bob Odenkirk, who suffered a heart attack last July on the sets of the AMC series in New Mexico, made an appearance on the Howard Stern show recently and talked about how close he had come to death.

The 59-year-old actor credited being in a good shape for his role in ‘Nobody’ and someone on the set starting CPR on him which eventually saved his life. Claiming that Better Call Saul’s health officer ran to her car and got a defibrillator which was used on him three times, Odenkirk said, “When the defibrillator doesn’t work once, that’s not good. When it doesn’t work the second time, that is kind of like — forget it. But then they jacked it up a third time, and it got me back to a rhythm.”

“Because I was in good shape, you kind of enlarge other veins around your heart, if you work out a lot,” he added. “And I was told that more blood was able to go to my heart during CPR because these veins were just a little bit bigger from a lot of working out.” The actor further mentioned that the surgery which took place the morning after his medical emergency turned out successful and the built-up plaque was cleared from his left heart anterior. “Take CPR classes, because you can save lives with them,” Odenkirk concluded.