Since his 2013 skiing accident, Michael Schumacher’s health details have remained private, but he made his first public appearance in over a decade at his daughter Gina’s wedding, prompting insights from friends about his condition and communication methods.
New Delhi: Since the near-fatal skiing accident in 2013, the life of the Formula One hero Michael Schumacher experienced many dramatic changes over the years. The details about his health post-incident have, nonetheless, remained rather classified to this date. Despite the rumors that reached global circles stating how Michael Schumacher has been living in Switzerland, European coverage seems to indicate a different story as he made his first public appearance in more than ten years by attending his daughter Gina’s wedding this week.
The ceremony was held at a villa in Mallorca, Spain. According to the report, guests were prohibited from taking photographs of the venue, maintaining a high level of privacy throughout the event.
Elisabetta Gregoraci, the wife of current Alpine F1 team supervisor Flavio Briatore, has shared a poignant insight into how Michael Schumacher communicates following his skiing accident.
“Michael doesn’t speak, he communicates with his eyes. Only three people can visit him and I know who they are. They moved to Spain and his wife has set up a hospital in that house,” Gregoraci said on Italian reality TV show ‘Grande Fratello’, as quoted by Express.co.uk.
Local media reports indicate that Schumacher’s wife, Corinna, purchased the luxury villa from Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez. Additionally, former world champion Sebastian Vettel, a close friend of the Schumacher family, recently disclosed that the F1 legend “is not doing well.”
Schumacher’s lawyer, Felix Damm, has stated that the former F1 driver’s family has opted not to disclose his latest health report, citing privacy concerns as the reason for this decision.
“It was always about protecting private things. We considered whether a final report about Michael’s health could be the right way to do this,” Damm told German media outlet LTO, as quoted by SI.com.
Damm also mentioned that if Schumacher’s family had released the final health report, they would have faced significant media pressure for regular updates on his health status.
“But that wouldn’t have been the end of it and there would have had to be constantly updated ‘water level reports’ and it would not have been up to the family when the media interest in the story stopped.”
“They [the media] could pick up on such a report again and again and as ‘and what does it look like now?’ one, two, three months or years after the message,” he added. “If we then wanted to take action against this reporting, we would have to deal with the argument of voluntary self-disclosure,” he added.