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

The famed comedian experienced a “near fatal” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an induced coma in 2021, per details from 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 emceed the Oscars on two occasions, remained in care for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“He wasn't right, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we headed to the ER. His heart stopped. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for eight days, before cautioning his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We are unsure how present he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.”

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

The actor personally has revealed that he has suffered recall difficulties since his hospital stay, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a physical altercation with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his absence from the 50th anniversary special of SNL earlier this year, at which he was in the crowd but not on stage.

“Honestly, it was quite upsetting,” 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 former castmates Garrett and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was wondering as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

The 82-year-old, 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.