‘He was brought back from the edge’: Chevy Chase was in eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic.

The famed comedian experienced a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an induced coma in 2021, per details from a recent documentary about the comedy star.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, remained in care for five weeks in the hospital.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stopped. 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 over a week, before cautioning his child, his daughter: “He may not recover. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has practically been resurrected.”

The actor personally has stated that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his hospitalisation, and in the documentary he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

Chase said he was “hurt” by his omission from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of depression.