‘He was brought back from the edge’: The comedy legend spent eight days in a medically induced coma during the health crisis.

Chevy Chase suffered a “potentially fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, spent a total of five weeks in the hospital.

“Something was wrong, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for eight days, before warning his child, Caley: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how aware he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

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

Chase himself has revealed that he has experienced recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

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

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 former castmates Garrett and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was curious as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, came close to death in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which precipitated a period of depression.