‘He was brought back from the edge’: Chevy Chase endured eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian endured a “near fatal” heart failure that led to him being put into an induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a new documentary project about the American actor and comedian.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films 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.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; 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 child, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his hospital stay, and in the film he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in attendance but not participating.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine went on the stage, I was puzzled as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of severe depression.