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

Chevy Chase suffered a “potentially fatal” heart failure that caused him being placed in an medically induced coma during the pandemic, according to 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 was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

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

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his voice,” she continued. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

The actor personally has stated that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

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

Now 82, Chase, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of severe depression.