‘He was brought back from the edge’: Chevy Chase endured eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian endured a “near fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, spent a total of five weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, 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 developed 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 coma for over a week, before cautioning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

He himself has stated that he has dealt with memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the documentary he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

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

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine Newman were called up, I was wondering as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

Now 82, Chase, almost died in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of depression.