‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend was in eight days in a medically induced coma during the health crisis.

Chevy Chase suffered a “potentially fatal” heart failure that caused him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, according to a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

Featured in 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, remained in care for five weeks in the hospital.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stops. 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.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for more than a week, before warning his child, his daughter: “He may not recover. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

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

Chase himself has revealed that he has experienced cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

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

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 former castmates Garrett and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of severe depression.