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

The famed comedian endured a “life-threatening” cardiac event that led to him being put into an medically induced coma in 2021, according to a new film about the comedy star.

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, spent a total of 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 got cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before cautioning his child, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has essentially come back from the dead.”

Chase himself has revealed that he has dealt with memory problems since his hospitalisation, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in attendance but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I left aside?”

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 depression.