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

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

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for five weeks in the hospital.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stops. 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 through the body with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for over a week, before cautioning his child, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has practically come back from the dead.”

The actor personally has said that he has dealt with recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the documentary he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his omission from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not featured.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was curious as to why I didn’t. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

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