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

The famed comedian experienced a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that led to him being placed in an medically induced coma in 2021, as revealed in a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars on two occasions, was hospitalized 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; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for over a week, before cautioning his child, his daughter: “He may not recover. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has practically returned 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 professional and personal incidents, including a fight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

Chase said he was “disappointed” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL recently, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I assumed that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. I wasn't invited. Why was I overlooked?”

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