‘He has come back from the dead’: The comedy legend was in eight days in a medically induced coma during Covid pandemic.

The famed comedian experienced a “potentially fatal” heart failure that caused him being put into an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, as revealed in a recent documentary about the entertainment icon.

Featured 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 on two occasions, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; which is 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 more than a week, before cautioning his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he was able to do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has practically come back from the dead.”

Chase himself has stated that he has suffered memory problems since his hospital stay, and in the film he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live green room.

Chase said he was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“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 were called up, I was puzzled as to why I was not. I wasn't invited. Why was I excluded?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of clinical depression.