Schumacher’s wife provides update on former F1 world champion
Michael Schumacher’s wife Corinna has revealed the former seven-times world F1 champion is still battling to recover from brain injury caused by a skiing accident but remains “here but different”, in a Netflix documentary to be aired next week, the Guardian reports.
Updates on the former Ferrari driver’s health have been infrequent since his accident in 2013, especially from his family and this is the most expansive public statement about his condition since 2014.
“Everybody misses Michael, but Michael is here, different, but here,” Corinna says in the documentary entitled “Schumacher”, which is released on 15 September. “He still shows me how strong he is every day.
“We’re together. We live together at home. We do therapy. We do everything we can to make Michael better and to make sure he’s comfortable. And to simply make him feel our family, our bond. And no matter what, I will do everything I can. We all will. We’re trying to carry on as a family, the way Michael liked it and still does. And we are getting on with our lives.”
Schumacher is now 52 years old, while his son Mick, who was 14 and with him at the time of the accident now races for Haas in F1. Corinna married Schumacher in 1995 and they also have a daughter, Gina, but have always been fiercely protective of their privacy. He has been in recovery in private care at the family home on Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Schumacher is still much admired in the sport but it is the accident that has had the great impact on those closest to him. “‘I miss Michael every day,” says Corinna. “But it’s not just me who misses him. It’s the children, the family, his father, everyone around him.”