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

Chevy Chase endured a “near fatal” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a new film about the American actor and comedian.

Featured 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 hospital.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for eight days, before cautioning his child, his daughter: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has stated that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. 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 wondering as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

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