‘He returned from the brink’: The comedy legend was in eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

Chevy Chase experienced a “potentially fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a new documentary project about the American actor and comedian.

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

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

Physicians subsequently induced him into a state of unconsciousness for eight days, before advising his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

The actor personally has revealed that he has dealt with cognitive issues since his hospital stay, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his omission from the 50th anniversary special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

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 clinical depression.