‘He returned from the brink’: The comedy legend was in eight days in a coma during the health crisis.

The famed comedian endured a “life-threatening” heart failure that led to him being placed in an induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

As documented in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the legend 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 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; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for over a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “He may not recover. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

Chase himself has stated that he has experienced memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the documentary he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

Chase said he was “upset” by his exclusion from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not on stage.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” 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 co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine were called up, I was wondering as to why I was not. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

The 82-year-old, almost died in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of depression.