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

The famed comedian endured a “near fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being placed in an medically induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars on two occasions, spent a total of five full 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 developed cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a state of unconsciousness for eight days, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “He may not recover. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has basically come back from the dead.”

He himself has said that he has suffered recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the film he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

Chase said he was “hurt” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I assumed that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

Chase, 82, came close to death in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of depression.