‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend was in eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian endured a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that led to him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a new film about the comedy star.

As documented 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 on two occasions, spent a total of five weeks in the hospital.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go 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.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for more than a week, before cautioning his child, Caley: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has stated that he has suffered 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 fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the crowd 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 Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was curious as to why I wasn't. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

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