‘He has come back from the dead’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

Chevy Chase experienced a “life-threatening” heart failure that caused him being put into an induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a new film about the American actor and comedian.

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 on two occasions, 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 go 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 are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for over a week, before cautioning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Prepare yourselves 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.”

The actor personally has stated that he has dealt with memory problems since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL recently, at which he was in attendance but not participating.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine went on the stage, I was curious as to why I wasn't. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of severe depression.