Ric Flair is now admitting he had been boozing HARD all day and night in the hours before his medical emergency in August ... and credits his fiancee with saving his life.
"I had been drinking ... shocker, yeah," Flair said on WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Morton's podcast.
"A friend of mine came in town from Dallas and we had been out all day the day before (the emergency) and again in the morning before I flew back."
Hours later, Flair says ... "I got this really sharp pain in my stomach.