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In December 2013, Michael Schumacher suffered a near-fatal skiing accident in the French Alps after falling and striking his head on a rock.
The German Formula One legend was airlifted to hospital, placed in a medically-induced coma for six months, and hasn’t been seen in public since.
Ahead of the release of the new Netflix doccie, SCHUMACHER, next week, Corinna has broken her eight-year silence on Michael’s health.
Here’s The Guardian:
“Of course, I miss Michael every day. But it’s not just me who misses him. I mean, everybody misses Michael, but Michael is here. Different, but he’s here and that gives us strength, I find.
“I think that he is simply very strong mentally. Extremely strong. 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.”
Corrina and Michael married in 1995, and the family live in Geneva, Switzerland, where he receives private care at his home.
She goes on to say that Michael always stressed ‘private is private’:
“It’s very important to me that he can continue to enjoy his private life as much as possible. Michael always protected us, now we are protecting Michael.”
According to The Telegraph, Michael was actually concerned about the skiing conditions in Meribel ahead of his accident:
“Shortly before it happened in Meribel, he said to me, ‘The snow isn’t optimal. We could fly to Dubai and go skydiving there,” [Corinna] recalls.
“We’d always made it through his races safely,’ she adds. ‘Which is why I was certain he had a few guardian angels that were keeping an eye out for him.
“I don’t know if it’s just a kind of protective wall that you put up yourself or if it’s because you’re in a way naive – but it simply never occurred to me that anything could ever happen to Michael.”
SCHUMACHER will be released on September 15, and features never-seen-before archival footage, as well as interviews with family members.
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