Chevy Chase spent eight days in a coma after being hospitalized for coronary heart failure in 2021, the comic’s household famous within the CNN documentary “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.” As his daughter Caley put it, he “mainly got here again from the lifeless.”
Folks quoted Caley as having defined, “Properly, I imply, he’s 80-something and has mainly come again from the lifeless. Oh my God, he had coronary heart failure. Have they talked about that in any respect? It’s so onerous to speak about.”
The documentary premieres on January 1.
His spouse, Jayni Chase, additionally mentioned, “One thing was improper, and he couldn’t clarify to me what was improper. So, we go to the ER. His coronary heart stops. Throughout these years he was consuming, he obtained cardiomyopathy — when the guts muscular tissues get weaker, and so they can’t pump as a lot blood out with every beat.”
Chevy’s good friend Peter Aaron additionally mentioned within the doc that the medical doctors attending to the comic “determined to place him right into a coma for possibly eight days” and he nonetheless suffers “reminiscence gaps” on account of the expertise.
The actor additionally displays on the medical incident, which occurred in 2021. “In keeping with the medical doctors, my reminiscence could be shot from it, and that’s what’s occurred right here,” he mentioned within the documentary.
“Coronary heart failure is what it’s,” he additionally mentioned. “I’m fantastic now. It’s simply that it impacts your reminiscence, and the medical doctors have informed me that, so, I’ve to be reminded of issues.”
