‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend spent eight days in a medically induced coma during Covid pandemic.

Chevy Chase experienced a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, according to a new film about the comedy star.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for over a week, before advising his child, his daughter: “He may not recover. We are unsure how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his voice,” she continued. “He has practically been resurrected.”

Chase himself has stated that he has suffered cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not featured.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I assumed that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine were called up, I was puzzled as to why I was not. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

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