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

Chevy Chase suffered a “near fatal” heart failure that caused him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a recent documentary about the comedy star.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars on two occasions, spent a total of five weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to 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, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has basically come back from the dead.”

The actor personally has revealed that he has suffered cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman were called up, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

Chase, 82, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of severe depression.