Cinemax After Dark almost killed Bret Michaels.

The rockin’ Celebrity Apprentice finalist — who made a miraculous recovery after suffering a brain aneurysm last month — remembers the exact moment he knew something had gone terribly wrong underneath his trademark bandana, because his hemorrhaging brain rudely interrupted his evening with cable porn!

“I was going back and forth from SportsCenter to Busty Cops 3,” the Poison star, 47, admits. “Maybe that’s what did it!”