He has been living in seclusion on his property on Lake Geneva for ten years now, after a tragic skiing accident.
Behind the scenes, Corinna Schumacher would do everything to preserve the privacy of her husband Michael, in particular the details concerning his state of health.
Only a handful of privileged people, including Luca Badoer, a former teammate of the champion, and Jean Todt, would be allowed to visit him.
But all would be bound by secrecy.
Interviewed in a Netflix documentary, in 2021, Corina Schumacher simply declared: “It is clear that I miss Michael every day (…) He is different, but he is still there.”
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In 2016, the family's lawyer claimed that the ex-Formula 1 driver could neither walk nor stand.
Around fifteen doctors, nurses and massage therapists would also take turns at his bedside.
But to this day, no one knows the extent of his brain damage.
Corriere
della Sera
therefore created a surprise at the beginning of January by raising a major question: will Michael Schumacher attend the wedding of his daughter Gina Maria?
According to the German daily
Bunte
, the union of the 26-year-old young woman with the rider Iain Bethke, 27, a couple for six years and owners of a horse farm, would be planned for the end of the summer.
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“He sits at the dinner table”
Corinna and her daughter Gina Maria Schumacher receive an award in the name of Michael Schumacher.
(Cologne, July 20, 2022.) Abaca
And certain details suggest that the seven-time world champion could be there.
The ceremony will in fact take place in Majorca, in the Schumacher family villa.
A place “equipped with the necessary equipment to assist the former pilot”, specifies
Corriere della Sera
.
If we are to believe former British driver Johny Herbert, who spoke to
BettingSites
on January 9, Michael Schumacher's state of health would also have improved.
“I catch snippets of conversations here and there,” he declared at the time.
“I hear, from those who operate in the world of F1, that he sits at the table in the evening, for dinner, but I don't know if that's true.
I can only read between the lines.”
The ex-racer nevertheless wanted to qualify: “The fans would like to learn, we would all like to learn that things are evolving in a positive way,” he continued.
But since we have no information, we can only assume that he is not yet likely to recover.”
And if Michael Schumacher really went to his daughter's wedding, it is very likely that no photo of him would leak.
Bunte
revealed that a reinforced security team would be on standby during the event, in order to keep photographers at bay.
Especially since Corinna Schumacher is keeping an eye on things.
According to the
Daily Mail
, German prosecutors intervened narrowly in 2014 after a “friend” of the ex-pilot tried to leak a photo of the latter.
A photo that he offered to the press for the modest sum of one million euros.
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