‘He has come back from the dead’: Chevy Chase endured eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

Chevy Chase experienced a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a new film about the entertainment icon.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five weeks in the hospital.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a coma for more than a week, before cautioning his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has basically been resurrected.”

Chase himself has stated that he has experienced recall difficulties since his hospitalisation, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his omission from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I would’ve 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 wasn't. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

Chase, 82, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of severe depression.