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

The famed comedian suffered a “near fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being put into an induced coma in 2021, according to a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

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

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we went 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 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 aware he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his voice,” she continued. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

Chase himself has stated that he has experienced recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal incidents, 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 this year, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I assumed 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 wondering as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

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