‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend spent eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic.

The famed comedian suffered a “near fatal” heart failure that led to him being placed in an medically induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a new documentary project about the comedy star.

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, 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 stops. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could 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 cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

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

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 triggered a period of severe depression.