‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a medically induced coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian endured a “near fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, per details from a recent documentary about the comedy star.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the hospital.

“He wasn't right, 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 was diagnosed with 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 coma for more than a week, before cautioning his child, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has practically come back from the dead.”

The actor personally has revealed that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his hospitalisation, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

Chase said he was “upset” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I assumed that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman were called up, I was wondering 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 electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of severe depression.