‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend spent eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that caused him being placed in an medically induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, spent a total of five weeks in the medical facility.

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

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before warning his child, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has basically been resurrected.”

The actor personally has said that he has experienced cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine went on the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of clinical depression.