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

Chevy Chase endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that caused him being placed in an medically induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a new film about the American actor and comedian.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; which is 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 state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before cautioning his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has stated that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

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

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I assumed that I should 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. I wasn't invited. Why was I overlooked?”

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