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

Chevy Chase experienced a “near fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an medically induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a new documentary project 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 hosted the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; 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 over a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has revealed that he has experienced memory problems since his medical ordeal, and in the film he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

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

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I assumed that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was wondering as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, came close to death in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of severe depression.