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

Chevy Chase endured a “near fatal” heart failure that led to him being put into an induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a new film about the American actor and comedian.

The film, titled 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, was hospitalized for five weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for over a week, before cautioning his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has stated that he has experienced cognitive issues since his medical ordeal, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the audience but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was wondering as to why I was not. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of clinical depression.