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

Chevy Chase endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that led to him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, per details from a new film about the entertainment icon.

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

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain 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 can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for eight days, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has practically been resurrected.”

Chase himself has said that he has experienced cognitive issues since his hospital stay, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his omission from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I thought that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

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