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

Chevy Chase suffered a “near fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being placed in an medically induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in a new film about the comedy star.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; 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 eight days, before warning his daughter, Caley: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

Chase himself has revealed that he has suffered recall difficulties since his hospitalisation, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his omission from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not on stage.

“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 went on the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. I wasn't invited. Why was I overlooked?”

Chase, 82, almost died in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of clinical depression.