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

Chevy Chase endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that caused him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a recent documentary 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, spent a total of five weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, 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 was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has practically returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has revealed that he has experienced memory problems since his medical ordeal, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the crowd but not participating.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

Now 82, Chase, almost died in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of clinical depression.