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

The famed comedian suffered a “life-threatening” heart failure that led to him being put into an induced coma in 2021, per details from a new film about the American actor and comedian.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. 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 through the body with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for over a week, before advising his child, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has stated that he has dealt with memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” 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 former castmates Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I wasn't. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of clinical depression.