‘He returned from the brink’: Chevy Chase endured eight days in a coma during the pandemic.

The famed comedian endured a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that caused him being placed in an induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a new film about the entertainment icon.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for five full weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for eight days, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has basically come back from the dead.”

Chase himself has said that he has experienced recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

He expressed he was “upset” by his omission from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in attendance but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I assumed that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was curious as to why I was not. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

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.