Michael Schumacher’s friend and journalist Roger Benoit has provided a heartbreaking update on the F1 legend’s condition, as his health has been kept private following a skiing accident in 2013. The seven-time world champion has not been seen publicly since that day, as his family maintains strict privacy around his condition.
Rare updates have been provided across the near-10 years since he was taken out of the public eye, as even close family and friends have been kept in the dark after he was airlifted to hospital during a trip with his son Mick to the French Alps in December 2013.
Schumacher’s wife, Corinna, offered a rare update that the 54-year-old is “different, but here” during the former driver’s Netflix documentary in 2021, as he continues to undergo rehabilitation for his injuries.
Bild journalist Benoit regularly smoked cigars with the F1 icon after races and was even gifted Schumacher’s yellow Benetton overalls, in which he won his first grand prix in Spa in 1992, was recently asked if he was able to provide an update on his friend – but could only respond in a heartbreaking way.
“No,” he told Blick. “There is only one answer to this question and that is what his son Mick gave in one of his rare interviews in 2022: ‘I would give anything to talk to dad’. This sentence says everything about how his father has been doing for over 3500 days. A case without hope.”
Benoit was referring to the Netflix documentary in which both Mick and Corinna Schumacher gave a rare insight into their relationship with Michael now. “I think dad and me, we would understand each other in a different way now,” the emotional racer said. “Simply because we speak a similar language – the language of motorsport.
“We would have had much more to talk about and that is where my head is most of the time, thinking that would be so cool. That would be it. I would give up everything just for that. Yes.”
Corinna provided some more detail about her husband’s current status. “Michael is here. Different, but he’s here, and that gives us strength, I find,” she said. “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. ‘Private is private’, as he always said.
“It’s very important to me that he can continue to enjoy his private life as much as possible. Michael always protected us, and now we are protecting Michael.”
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