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

The famed comedian experienced a “potentially fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, according to a new film about the entertainment icon.

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, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stops. 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 state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before advising his daughter, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. 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 essentially come back from the dead.”

Chase himself has revealed that he has dealt with memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I thought that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was curious as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

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 triggered a period of severe depression.