‘He was brought back from the edge’: Chevy Chase was in eight days in a coma during Covid pandemic.

The famed comedian suffered a “potentially fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, according to a new film about the entertainment icon.

The film, titled 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, spent a total of five weeks in the hospital.

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

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for over a week, before cautioning his daughter, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could do was use his voice,” she added. “He has basically returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has revealed that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his absence from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine went on the stage, I was puzzled as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

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