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

Chevy Chase experienced a “near fatal” heart failure that led to him being placed in an induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a new documentary project about the comedy star.

Featured 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 twice, remained in care for five full weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his child, Caley: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how cognizant 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 been resurrected.”

He himself has stated that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the film he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

Chase said he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not participating.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. 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 puzzled as to why I didn’t. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

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