'Stone Cold' Steve Austin reveals which WWE stunt nearly killed him

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin was involved in some wild stunts during his WWE heyday, but as he revealed on the latest episode of his podcast, there was one in particular that almost ended very badly for him.

The near-deadly incident occurred in 1999 during an episode of "Raw." "The Rock" was holding a "funeral" for Austin, who then showed up in a monster truck and destroyed his rival's brand new Lincoln Town Car.

Austin had never driven a monster truck before, so he decided to take it for a quick spin in the parking lot before the show.

Here's what he said happened next, as transcribed by News.com.au:

So there we are, we go live. I get my cue and off I go running up and down that car, crushing the s--- out of it. Then there's going to be a deal where I drive the truck into the arena.

So I go into the back door of the arena and I'm in a holding room with a couple of curtains in front of me. The monster truck was loud as f--- and that 1800 horsepower motor is churning out exhaust fumes.

So I'm in this room and they shut the door behind me. It was about a three minutes commercial break, so the whole time the people back home are watching commercials, I'm in a room, inside a truck, breathing methanol/alcohol fumes - I could barely breathe.

I was just begging for the show to come back on air so I could charge out in the audience and get a breath of fresh air. I'm breathing all those exhaust fumes, motherf---er, I was going to crash that gate doing 98 and go and take my own cue and haul a-- into the arena, if they hadn't of cued me when they did - I was about to die.