‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a medically induced coma during the pandemic.

Chevy Chase endured a “near fatal” heart failure that caused him being put into an medically induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart gave out. 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 cautioning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has essentially come back from the dead.”

The actor personally has said that he has suffered recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the documentary he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

Chase said he was “upset” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine Newman were called up, I was wondering as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of severe depression.