‘He returned from the brink’: The comedy legend spent eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic.

The famed comedian suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a new film 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 hosted the Oscars twice, spent a total of five full weeks in the hospital.

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

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has basically returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has stated that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his exclusion from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine were called up, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

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