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

Chevy Chase endured a “potentially fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

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, remained in care for five weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before cautioning his child, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has basically been resurrected.”

Chase himself has revealed that he has experienced recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his absence from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL recently, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I assumed that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman were called up, I was puzzled as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I left aside?”

Now 82, Chase, came close to death in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of severe depression.