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

Chevy Chase suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a new film about the entertainment icon.

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, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before advising his child, his daughter: “He may not recover. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

The actor personally has stated that he has experienced cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” 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 and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was wondering as to why I was not. There was no invitation. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of depression.