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

Chevy Chase suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a new film about the comedy star.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, remained in care for five weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart gave out. 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.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for eight days, before warning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has essentially come back from the dead.”

He himself has said that he has suffered recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the film he does not recollect 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 recently, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 Morris and Laraine Newman were called up, I was puzzled as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of clinical depression.