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

The famed comedian experienced a “life-threatening” heart failure that led to him being put into an induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to 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 hosted the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the hospital.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we went 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 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 cautioning his child, his daughter: “He may not recover. We don’t know how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has basically returned 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 incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “upset” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL recently, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

The 82-year-old, came close to death in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of clinical depression.