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

Chevy Chase experienced a “potentially fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a new film about the comedy star.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for five weeks in the hospital.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart gave out. 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 out with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for over a week, before warning his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has practically returned from the dead.”

He himself has said that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his hospital stay, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

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

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” 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 took the stage, I was curious as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

Chase, 82, came close to death in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of depression.