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

The famed comedian endured a “life-threatening” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a recent documentary about the American actor and comedian.

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

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go 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 are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a state of unconsciousness for over 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.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has basically been resurrected.”

The actor personally has stated that he has suffered cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 went on the stage, I was curious as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

Now 82, Chase, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of severe depression.