‘He was brought back from the edge’: Chevy Chase was in eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic.

Chevy Chase suffered a “near fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an induced coma during the pandemic, according to a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend 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 go to the ER. His heart stops. 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.”

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 are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has basically been resurrected.”

Chase himself has said that he has experienced memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the documentary he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine went on the stage, I was puzzled 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 shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of severe depression.