‘He has come back from the dead’: Chevy Chase endured eight days in a coma during the pandemic.

The famed comedian suffered a “life-threatening” cardiac event that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma in 2021, per details from a new documentary project about the entertainment icon.

The film, titled 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, spent a total of 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 stops. During those years he was drinking, he developed 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 warning his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

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

Chase himself has revealed that he has experienced recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the project he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

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

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I'm only now voicing this. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett and Laraine were called up, I was wondering as to why I was not. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

Now 82, Chase, came close to death in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which precipitated a period of severe depression.