‘He has come back from the dead’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a coma during the pandemic.

Chevy Chase endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that led to him being placed in an medically induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a new film about the entertainment icon.

As documented 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 twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart gave out. 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 coma for over a week, before warning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has basically been resurrected.”

The actor personally has stated that he has experienced memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not participating.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I assumed that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was curious as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of severe depression.