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

The famed comedian experienced a “life-threatening” heart failure that resulted in him being placed in an induced coma amid the global health crisis, per details from a recent documentary about the American actor and comedian.

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, was hospitalized for five full weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart stops. 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.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a state of unconsciousness for more than a week, before warning his child, his daughter: “He may not recover. We are unsure how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she stated further. “He has practically returned from the dead.”

Chase himself has revealed that he has suffered recall difficulties since his medical ordeal, and in the film he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with fellow comedian Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live backstage area.

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

“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” 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 and Laraine took the stage, I was curious as to why I was not. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

Chase, 82, came close to death in 1980 when he was electrocuted on the set of Modern Problems, an incident which triggered a period of depression.