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

Chevy Chase experienced a “life-threatening” cardiac event that led to 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 films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

“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 can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for over a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has basically come back from the dead.”

He himself has said that he has experienced memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine were called up, I was curious as to why I was not. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

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.