‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a medically induced coma during the pandemic.

Chevy Chase experienced a “life-threatening” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma in 2021, according to a new film 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 hosted the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for five weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

He himself has said that he has suffered recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

Chase said he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not participating.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was puzzled as to why I was not. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

Now 82, Chase, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of clinical depression.