‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a coma during the pandemic.

Chevy Chase experienced a “near fatal” heart failure that caused him being placed in an induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

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 twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is 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 state of unconsciousness for eight days, before cautioning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has essentially come back from the dead.”

He himself has revealed that he has suffered recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

He expressed he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL earlier this year, 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 assumed that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was curious as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of severe depression.