‘He returned from the brink’: The comedy legend endured eight days in a 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, per details from a new film about the comedy star.

The film, titled 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, spent a total of five weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart gave out. 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 out with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for eight days, before advising his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We are unsure how cognizant he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“Upon waking, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she added. “He has practically been resurrected.”

Chase himself has said that he has suffered memory problems since his medical ordeal, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage incidents, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

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

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I thought that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was curious as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I excluded?”

The 82-year-old, came close to death in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of depression.