‘He returned from the brink’: The comedy legend spent eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic.

The famed comedian suffered a “near fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma in 2021, per details from a new documentary project about the comedy star.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, was hospitalized for five 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 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.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for eight days, before warning his child, Caley: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how aware 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 practically come back from the dead.”

The actor personally has revealed 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 controversies, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “upset” by his omission from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not on stage.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman were called up, I was curious as to why I wasn't. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

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