‘He returned from the brink’: Chevy Chase was in eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic.

Chevy Chase endured a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a new documentary project about the American actor and comedian.

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 twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; 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 state of unconsciousness for over a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has revealed that he has experienced memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL recently, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I assumed that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine went on the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, came close to death in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of clinical depression.