‘He returned from the brink’: Chevy Chase was in eight days in a coma during the pandemic.

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

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, 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 developed cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for more than a week, before cautioning his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

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

He himself has stated that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the film he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I assumed that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

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