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

The famed comedian suffered a “life-threatening” cardiac event that caused him being put into an 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 legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for 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 stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with 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 cautioning his daughter, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has practically been resurrected.”

The actor personally has said that he has suffered memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

Chase said he was “hurt” by his omission from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I assumed that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman were called up, I was puzzled as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

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