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

The famed comedian experienced a “life-threatening” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a new film 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 emceed the Oscars on two occasions, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went 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 coma for eight days, before advising his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she stated further. “He has essentially returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has said that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary 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 assumed that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine went on the stage, I was curious 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 incident which precipitated a period of depression.