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Chevy Chase opens up about the health issue that kept him in the hospital for five weeks.
In the upcoming documentary, “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not,” premiering January 1 on CNN, the 82-year-old actor and his family discuss his hospital stay following a heart attack, with his daughter, Caley saying, “[He] he’s back from the dead,” Variety said.
“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stopped,” Chase’s wife, Jayni, said in the documentary. “During those years he was drinking, he developed cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles become weak, and cannot pump as much blood with each beat.”
His longtime friend, Peter Aaron, also appeared in the documentary, revealing that following his heart attack, doctors “decided to put him in a coma for maybe eight days.”
Chase discussed his 2021 health issue in his new documentary. (Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)
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His daughter went on to explain that the doctors then advised the family to “prepare for the worst,” telling them that, “we may not find him,” and even if they do bring him back, “we don’t know how long he will be around.”
The actor spent five weeks in hospital in 2021 following a health scare, although he did not elaborate on the nature of his illness at the time.
“These are my first days at home. I can only say how happy I am that I am now back with my family. I feel good,” he told Page Six at that time. “I was in the hospital for five weeks. Heart problem. So, for now, I’m at home. I’m not going anywhere.”
Chase spoke about his diagnosis of alcoholic cardiomyopathy – a condition characterized by weakening of the heart muscle caused by excessive drinking – in 2018, when he spoke to the Washington Post.
Chase was a member of the original cast of “Saturday Night Live.” (NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
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“Heart failure is what it is,” Chase said in the documentary, adding that “he’s better now.”
The “National Lampoon’s Vacation” star had a breakthrough in Hollywood as one of the original cast members of “Saturday Night Live.” He was the first cast member to leave the show, leaving after the end of the first season, hoping to pursue a career in music.
In February, the popular sketch comedy show celebrated its 50th anniversary with a three-hour special featuring current and former cast members coming together to celebrate some of the show’s most historic moments. Left out of the celebration was Chase, who was there, but didn’t participate much on stage.
“It was annoying, actually,” he said in the documentary. “Maybe I’m the first to say it. But I expected to be on stage with all the other actors. When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] I went to the stage there, I wanted to know why I didn’t do it. No one asked me. Why am I left out?”
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Chase admitted he was hurt that he wasn’t included in “SNL50: The Anniversary Special.” (Jamie McCarthy/NBC via Getty Images)
Chase went on to add that he reached out to “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels about the exclusion, but he said he took it back and played it off as a joke, but he actually felt like “someone made a mistake,” and that “they should have had me on that stage. It hurts.”
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