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

Chevy Chase experienced a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that caused him being put into an induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a recent documentary about the comedy star.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, spent a total of five weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. 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 child, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

The actor personally has revealed that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his hospital stay, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

Chase said he was “disappointed” by his omission from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the crowd but not participating.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I thought that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was curious as to why I didn’t. There was no invitation. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of depression.