Chevy Chase Was in Coma for 8 Days After Heart Failure in 2021

A new documentary reveals that Chevy Chase was put right into a coma for round eight days after he skilled coronary heart failure during the pandemic. It was reported in 2021 that the now-82-year-old comic spent 5 weeks in the hospital as a consequence of undisclosed coronary heart points.

“[He] has basically come back from the dead. He had heart failure,” Chase’s daughter, Caley Chase, said in the documentary, “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not,” premiering Jan. 1 on TGB.

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stops,” Chase’s spouse, Jayni Chase, said. “During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood out with each beat.”

Cardiomyopathy is a chronic disease that can result in coronary heart failure and other critical circumstances.

“They decided to put him into a coma for maybe eight days,” revealed Chase’s longtime good friend, Peter Aaron. “That’s pretty rough on the body.”

“The doctor had warned us: ‘We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.’ He woke up, all he could do was use his voice,” Caley continued, imitating disoriented noises.

She knew her dad was the same previous Chevy Chase when a nurse got here in to rearrange some medical gear: “She said, ‘I’m going to have to put this in here.’ And he said, ‘That’s what she said.’”

Aaron said it took a while for Chevy to “reorient himself” after the coma. He had some “cognitive disability” and performed playing cards and chess to get his “head back together.” (“I can only say how happy I am to now be back with my family,” Chase said in a assertion to the press in 2021. “I’m feeling good. I was in the hospital five weeks. A heart issue. So, for now, I’m around the house. Not going anywhere.”)

In the documentary, Aaron said, “I feel like his memory gaps come from that incident.”

Chevy concurred, “According to the doctors, my memory would be shot from it. That’s what’s happened here.”

Throughout the doc, when confronted with uncomfortable moments from his past, including on-set disputes from “Saturday Night Live” and “Community,” Chevy said he didn’t bear in mind many of the incidents.

“Heart failure is what it is. I’m fine now,” he said. (*8*)

Elsewhere in the documentary, the comic mentioned being “hurt” by his exclusion from the “SNL” fiftieth anniversary particular.

“It was kind of upsetting, actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] went on the stage there, I was curious as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”

He added, “I did bring it up once in a text to Lorne [Michaels] and then took it back. I said, ‘Okay, I take it back, silly.’ But it’s not that silly. Somebody’s made a bad mistake there. I don’t know who it was, but somebody made a mistake. They should’ve had me on that stage. It hurt.”