‘He returned from the brink’: Chevy Chase spent eight days in a medically induced coma during the pandemic.

The famed comedian endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that caused him being put into an medically induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a new film about the American actor and comedian.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five weeks in the hospital.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he got 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 more than a week, before cautioning his daughter, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she continued. “He has basically been resurrected.”

The actor personally has revealed that he has experienced recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

Chase said he was “disappointed” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in attendance but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was curious as to why I didn’t. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

The 82-year-old, came close to death 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.