‘He has come back from the dead’: Chevy Chase spent eight days in a coma during the pandemic.

The famed comedian endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that caused him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, according to a new film about the comedy star.

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, was hospitalized for five weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stops. 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.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for over a week, before cautioning his child, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

He himself has said that he has experienced recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the film he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal disputes, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I assumed that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman were called up, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I overlooked?”

The 82-year-old, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of depression.