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

Chevy Chase experienced a “life-threatening” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a new film about the entertainment icon.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for five weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go 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 out with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for eight days, before warning his child, Caley: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

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

He himself has revealed that he has suffered recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

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

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

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