‘He was brought back from the edge’: Chevy Chase endured eight days in a medically induced coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian experienced a “near fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a recent documentary about the American actor and comedian.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for more than a week, before cautioning his child, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she added. “He has practically been resurrected.”

He himself has said that he has suffered recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was wondering as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

Now 82, Chase, almost died in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of severe depression.