Man who recorded snake eating him alive was almost killed by one years before

A man who once willingly let a snake try to eat him revealed he had a dangerous encounter with another serpent before that.

Paul Rosolie once appeared on the Discovery Channel's Eaten Alive series, where he donned a special suit, slathered himself in pig's blood, and allowed a green anaconda to try to devour him.

The suit was necessary to provide the man with his own supply of air to breathe and to protect his body from being crushed by the power of the anaconda.

Unfortunately for Paul, the snake latched onto his arm and he 'felt the bone flex' as it tried constricting him in its coils, and he decided to call the attempt off.

Fortunately, there was a crew on hand to get the snake to let him go as it had latched onto his head, and he said he couldn't move it off him.

Check it out:

It turns out this isn't Rosolie's first close encounter with a snake, as he recently appeared on the Diary of a CEO podcast, where he spoke about how to properly pick up a snake.

The man said he'd 'learned from Steve Irwin' that if you grab a snake by the tail, it can turn around and bite you, so you might be safer off grabbing it by the neck.

However, as he recounted, this ended up going rather poorly for him when he tried doing it to a 12ft anaconda, and it started constricting him in revenge.

He said: "I ran in and I dove and I grabbed the snake by the head. Big mistake. Wraps around my arms. The first thing that I realized was I had anaconda handcuffs.

"Now I couldn't release the snake if I wanted to because it was around my wrists, then the second coil came around my shoulders. And now I'm feeling, I can actually hear my collar bone start to flex the way a stick sounds right before it snaps."

As you can probably tell, that is very much not the situation you want to be in, but fortunately, Rosolie had friends with him who grabbed the snake and started getting it off him.

Paul Rosolie has had a couple of close encounters with snakes (ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Rosolie said he was at the point where 'literally the eyes were gonna come out of my head' and he was about to be crushed when they pulled the snake off him.

"That was about as close as I came to knowing what it feels like," he said of being crushed to death by a snake.

Podcast host Steven Bartlett suggested the man had come a bit closer with his attempt to be eaten alive on TV by an even larger anaconda that weighed over 100kg.

He said that the moment 'set him back about 10 years' as he'd done it to raise awareness of the destruction of rainforests, but instead attracted the wrong kind of attention to the point he feared his 'dream of being a conservationist was over'.

"I was told by one prominent conservationist not even to come to South America," he revealed.

Despite his close encounters with snakes, he's continued to advocate for the protection of their habitat and the preservation of animals facing existential threats.