‘He has come back from the dead’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a medically induced coma during Covid pandemic.

Chevy Chase endured a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, according to a recent documentary about the American actor and comedian.

Featured in 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, spent a total of five full weeks in the hospital.

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

Doctors then placed him into a coma for eight days, before advising his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has basically been resurrected.”

He himself has said that he has experienced memory problems since his medical ordeal, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

Chase said he was “hurt” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in attendance but not participating.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was curious as to why I didn’t. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

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 led to a period of severe depression.