‘He returned from the brink’: Chevy Chase was in eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that caused him being put into an induced coma in 2021, per details from a new documentary project about the American actor and comedian.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for more than a week, before advising his child, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she continued. “He has practically returned from the dead.”

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I assumed that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

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