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

Chevy Chase endured a “potentially fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a recent documentary about the American actor and comedian.

The film, titled 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, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stopped. 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 out with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for more than a week, before cautioning his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with memory problems since his hospitalisation, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his omission from the milestone special of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

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

Now 82, Chase, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of clinical depression.