‘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 endured a “life-threatening” cardiac event that led to him being put into an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, as revealed in a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, spent a total of 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 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 out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how present he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his voice,” she added. “He has practically been resurrected.”

He himself has revealed that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the film he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of clinical depression.