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

Chevy Chase experienced a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that caused him being placed in an induced coma amid the global health crisis, as revealed in a new film about the comedy star.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, remained in care for five full 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 got 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 eight days, before advising his child, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how present he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has essentially come back from the dead.”

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine went on the stage, I was curious as to why I was not. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

Now 82, Chase, came close to death in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of depression.