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

Chevy Chase endured a “life-threatening” cardiac event that led to him being put into an induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a new film about the comedy star.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies 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 stops. 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.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a state of unconsciousness for eight days, before cautioning his daughter, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has stated that he has suffered memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman were called up, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

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