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

The famed comedian suffered a “life-threatening” heart failure that led to him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, according to a recent documentary about the American actor and comedian.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, spent a total of five full weeks in the medical facility.

“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 got cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to 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, Caley: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his voice,” she added. “He has basically come back from the dead.”

The actor personally has revealed that he has suffered memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 former castmates Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was wondering as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of depression.