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

The famed comedian suffered a “near fatal” cardiac event that caused him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, according to a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed 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 through the body with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before cautioning his daughter, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his voice,” she added. “He has practically come back from the dead.”

Chase himself has stated that he has suffered memory problems since his medical ordeal, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his omission from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, 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 could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was curious as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

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