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

The famed comedian endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that caused him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a recent documentary about the American actor and comedian.

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.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

Chase himself has stated that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine were called up, I was curious as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

Now 82, Chase, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of clinical depression.