A doctor who helped save Salman Rushdie’s life following the heinous 2022 knife attack on the acclaimed author said he was “lucky” — because his accused assailant failed to land a killing blow. 

“One of the surgeons who had saved my life said to me ‘First you were really unlucky, and then you were really lucky.’ I said, ‘What’s the lucky part?'” Rushdie recalled in an upcoming “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper.