‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend spent eight days in a medically induced coma during the pandemic.

Chevy Chase endured a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that caused him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a new documentary project about the American actor and comedian.

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 weeks in the hospital.

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

Doctors then placed him into a coma for over a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has basically returned from the dead.”

He himself has said that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the film he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his absence from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL recently, at which he was in attendance but not featured.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” 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 and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

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