‘He was brought back from the edge’: Chevy Chase endured eight days in a medically induced coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian experienced a “potentially fatal” heart failure that caused him being placed in an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a new film about the entertainment icon.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “He may not recover. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she continued. “He has basically returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has revealed that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

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

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 Morris and Laraine were called up, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

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