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

The famed comedian experienced a “near fatal” heart failure that led to him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a new film about the comedy star.

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, was hospitalized for five full 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 state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before cautioning his child, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has revealed that he has experienced recall difficulties since his hospitalisation, and in the documentary he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his omission from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman were called up, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of severe depression.