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

Chevy Chase suffered a “near fatal” heart failure that caused him being placed in an medically induced coma amid the global health crisis, according to a new film about the comedy star.

The film, titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of movies such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who hosted the Oscars twice, spent a total of five full weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, 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 developed cardiomyopathy; 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 over a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

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

He himself has revealed that he has suffered cognitive issues since his hospital stay, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a physical altercation with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

The comedian noted he was “hurt” by his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of SNL earlier 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 expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine took the stage, I was wondering as to why I wasn't. No one asked me to. Why was I overlooked?”

Now 82, Chase, came close to death in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which led to a period of clinical depression.