‘He returned from the brink’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a medically induced coma during Covid pandemic.

The famed comedian endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, per details from a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; which is 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 coma for more than a week, before advising his child, his daughter: “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 voice,” she stated further. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

The actor personally has said that he has experienced memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the film he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his absence from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I thought that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine went on the stage, I was wondering as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

Chase, 82, almost died in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of clinical depression.