‘He returned from the brink’: Chevy Chase spent eight days in a medically induced coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a recent documentary about the comedy star.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, spent a total of five weeks in the hospital.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go 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 coma for eight days, before warning his daughter, Caley: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

The actor personally has said that he has suffered recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

Chase said he was “hurt” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was curious as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of clinical depression.