‘He has come back from the dead’: Chevy Chase endured eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic.

Chevy Chase endured a “potentially fatal” heart failure that caused him being placed in an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a new documentary project 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 emceed the Oscars twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, 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; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before warning his daughter, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of severe depression.