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

The famed comedian experienced a “near fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

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 twice, was hospitalized for five 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 gave out. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is 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 coma for more than a week, before warning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has practically returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has said that he has experienced recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

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

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine were called up, I was wondering as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. 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 severe depression.