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

The famed comedian suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before advising his child, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his voice,” she added. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has said that he has suffered recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, came close to death in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of severe depression.