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

The famed comedian experienced a “potentially fatal” heart failure that led to him being put into an induced coma in 2021, according to a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star 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 medical facility.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for eight days, before warning his daughter, Caley: “His return is uncertain. 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 essentially returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has revealed that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

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

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was puzzled as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

Now 82, Chase, came close to death in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of severe depression.