‘He has come back from the dead’: Chevy Chase spent eight days in a medically induced coma during Covid pandemic.

The famed comedian experienced a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma in 2021, according to a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

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 hospital.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. 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 through the body with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for over a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

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

Chase himself has revealed that he has experienced memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. There was no invitation. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of clinical depression.