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

The famed comedian endured a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a new documentary project about the comedy star.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, 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 can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for over a week, before warning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has stated that he has suffered cognitive issues since his hospital stay, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

Chase said he was “upset” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. 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. There was no invitation. Why was I left aside?”

Now 82, Chase, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of clinical depression.