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

Chevy Chase endured a “near fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a recent documentary 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 emceed the Oscars on two occasions, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

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

Doctors then placed him into a coma for over a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “He may not recover. We don’t know how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has practically returned from the dead.”

He himself has revealed that he has suffered recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the film he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “upset” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL earlier 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 expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman 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, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of clinical depression.