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

The famed comedian experienced a “life-threatening” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, spent a total of 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 gave out. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; 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 coma for more than a week, before warning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has basically come back from the dead.”

The actor personally has stated that he has suffered cognitive issues since his hospitalisation, and in the project 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.

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

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine went on the stage, I was wondering as to why I was not. I wasn't invited. Why was I overlooked?”

Now 82, Chase, came close to death in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of clinical depression.