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

The famed comedian experienced a “near fatal” cardiac event that caused him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, 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 emceed the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for five weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with 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 physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I thought that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine went on the stage, I was curious as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of clinical depression.