Owner of Jesse Pinkman's House from Breaking Bad Shares How Much She Was Paid for Filming

Breaking Bad fans have an affinity for Jesse Pinkman 's house.

Christine Brennan owned the character's home, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in real life. Appearing in The House From ... — a documentary film by Tommy Avallone and narrated by Jason Lee, which looks at some of the most famous homes from television and film — Brennan says that while the house took on a life of its own in Breaking Bad, to her, it was still home.

"When I would watch the series and I'd see the portions inside the house, I'd say, 'Yeah that's Jesse's house,' but it was my house. It's where I raised my kids," she says.

"To me, it was also a place where we celebrated my mom's 80th birthday. I had so many beautiful experiences — my mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary, Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas. My dad's birthday was always at my house with his oyster stew. He liked his oyster stew and the whole family would get together."

Brennan notes, "To me it's kind of a privilege to share the memories of what I had with the house with the fans of Jesse's house."

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It also was financially helpful for Brennan, who explained how she was paid for them to use the location.

"[It was] $500 for the day if they needed to come, $2,000 if they filmed; if they don't film any more than 14 days then I don't have to pay income taxes on it. So at that point, my son was in high school and I was able to buy him a car," she shares. "On a school teacher's salary, it was hard for me to afford things, but I put that money towards a used car for him."

Brennan listed the house as season 2 was in progress, which wasn't news that Vince Gilligan, showrunner on Breaking Bad, welcomed.

" Vince Gilligan wasn't real happy to me when he found out I was selling the house mid-season. He had already envisioned what the next season was going to be like and he had to shift gears," she says.

"He had to rewrite the script so that Jesse's house would be sold, probably, in case the new owners didn't allow the filming, which resulted in Jesse having to move elsewhere because the buyers of my house were going to be in the process of remodeling it."