Ex-Liverpool star Neil Ruddock has credited lockdown for helping him mend his "bad ticker."
The ex-defender told last year how he was "technically dead" during a life-saving heart op.
His heavy drinking saw him confronted by tearful pal Paul Merson on ITV show Harry's Heroes.
But Razor said being stopped from going on marathon drinking sessions has helped him get healthier and lose a little weight, reported The Daily Star.
He said: "Lockdown, I thought it would be a nightmare when you're a fatty like me.
"But I had a bad ticker and lockdown's come at the right time, do you know what I mean?
"I've got to stay in, I'm not allowed to go out to as many times down the pub with me friends and lockdown's done me a right favour.
"I'm sat on me backside for a year watching Bargain Hunt."
Last summer the 52-year-old was told his life was on the line unless he got surgery for a pacemaker to be fitted, after docs found his heart was beating twice as fast as it should have been.
Before that could happen he had to have a procedure whereby his heart was "zapped" several times - known as a cardioversion - which stopped his heart and he was "technically dead for several seconds."
He said at the time: "They zap it seven times. If your heartbeat doesn’t return to normal after seven times, you're in trouble.
"Mine came back the third time they did it – but it stopped and I was technically dead for several seconds."
A month before he went under the knife, Razor was seen on Harry's Heroes: The Full English guzzling pints of beer, downing Jägerbombs and caught with a crafty packet of fags.
At one point Soccer Saturday pundit Paul Merson, himself a recovering alcoholic, sobbed when he witnessed the drinking session.
He said: "He's told us he's dying, yet he's paralytic in a bar with a bra on his head - it winds me up."
Ruddock, who also played for Spurs and capped once for England, admitted after his op that his drinking had got out of control.
He confessed: "At my worst I was crazy - I was doing three or four bottles of wine a day, easy-peasy, plus spirits, beers, cocktails."
But despite the health scare he has claimed he will be back down the boozer when they are open after lockdown, with wife Leah's blessing.
He said: "I'll be straight down the pub with me mates.
"Do you know what? My missus for years and years has gone, 'You drink too much, blah, blah, blah'.
"She can't wait for me to go out on all-nighters now and not come home."
