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

Chevy Chase experienced a “life-threatening” cardiac event that caused him being put into an induced coma during the pandemic, as revealed in 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 hosted the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five 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 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 through the body with each beat.”

Medical professionals then put him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his daughter, his daughter: “He may not recover. We don’t know how present he’ll be. You must prepare for the worst.”

“When he woke up, all he could do was use his voice,” she added. “He has practically been resurrected.”

Chase himself has stated that he has suffered memory problems since his hospitalisation, and in the film he cannot remember some of his past on-set and backstage disputes, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his absence from the milestone special of SNL recently, at which he was in the audience but not participating.

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I thought that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When former castmates Garrett and Laraine were called up, I was wondering as to why I was not. There was no invitation. Why was I overlooked?”

Now 82, Chase, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was shocked by electricity on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of depression.