‘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 “life-threatening” cardiac event that caused him being placed in an medically induced coma in 2021, according to a new film 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 emceed the Oscars on two occasions, was hospitalized for five weeks in the hospital.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for more than a week, before advising his child, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has practically come back from the dead.”

He himself has stated that he has suffered cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

Chase said he was “hurt” by his exclusion from the milestone special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in attendance but not participating.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

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