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

The famed comedian endured a “near fatal” cardiac event that led to him being put into an medically 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 emceed the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five weeks in the medical facility.

“Something was wrong, 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 developed cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for over a week, before advising his child, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she added. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

The actor personally has said that he has suffered recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

He expressed he was “upset” by his exclusion from the milestone special of SNL this year, at which he was in the audience but not on stage.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I thought that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine Newman went on the stage, I was puzzled as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

Chase, 82, almost died in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of severe depression.