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

The famed comedian suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, as revealed in a recent documentary 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 twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stopped. 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.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for eight days, before advising his child, Caley: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has basically come back from the dead.”

Chase himself has said that he has experienced memory problems since his medical ordeal, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

Chase said he was “disappointed” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not participating.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I assumed that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I wasn't. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, came close to death in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of clinical depression.