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

Chevy Chase experienced a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an induced coma in 2021, according to a recent documentary about the comedy star.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “He may not recover. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has practically been resurrected.”

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his hospital stay, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not participating.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I thought that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman were called up, I was curious as to why I was not. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

Chase, 82, came close to death in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of severe depression.