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

The famed comedian experienced a “life-threatening” cardiac event that resulted in him being put into an induced coma in 2021, according to a new documentary project about the American actor and comedian.

Featured in 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 full weeks in the hospital.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Doctors then placed him into a coma for over a week, before warning his daughter, Caley: “He may not recover. We don’t know how aware he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he was able to do was use his voice,” she added. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

Chase himself has stated that he has dealt with memory problems since his medical ordeal, and in the film he fails to recall some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fistfight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his exclusion from the 50th-anniversary show of SNL recently, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I expected that I should have been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman took the stage, I was curious as to why I didn’t. There was no invitation. Why was I excluded?”

Chase, 82, came close to death in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which triggered a period of severe depression.