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

Chevy Chase suffered a “life-threatening” cardiac event that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma amid the global health crisis, as revealed in a new documentary project about the American actor and comedian.

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

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for eight days, before advising his daughter, Caley: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how aware he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has basically returned from the dead.”

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his hospitalisation, and in the documentary he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “hurt” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in the crowd but not featured.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I could have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman were called up, I was puzzled as to why I wasn't. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

Now 82, Chase, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of depression.