‘He returned from the brink’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian endured a “potentially fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a recent documentary about the American actor and comedian.

Featured in 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, 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 gave out. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with 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 state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “He may not recover. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

He himself has stated that he has dealt with memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

Chase said he was “hurt” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I thought that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine were called up, I was curious as to why I didn’t. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of clinical depression.