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

Chevy Chase suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that caused him being put into an induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a new film about the comedy star.

The film, titled 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, was hospitalized for five weeks in the medical facility.

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

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for more than a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

He himself has said that he has suffered memory problems since his hospitalisation, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was wondering as to why I was not. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of clinical depression.