Michael Schumacher’s former boss has offered a rare insight into the Formula One legend twelve years after the skiing accident that caused a traumatic brain injury.
The German racing driver fell and hit his head on a rock on an unkempt snowfield at Meribel, a resort in the French Alps, in 2013.
Since then, his family has rarely spoken publicly about his health or shared details of his recovery.
Flavio Briatore, who led Benetton Formula when Schumacher won his first two World Championship titles back to back, appeared to confirm that the 56-year-old is bed-bound.
Flavio Briatore has shared a health update about F1 icon Michael Schumacher
prefer to remember him like that rather than him just lying on a bed.”
The Italian businessman was close with Schumacher and said he “talks often” with the racing driver’s wife, champion equestrian Corinna.
Schumacher is cared for by Corinna and medical staff at their Lake Geneva home in Switzerland.
The update comes after Briatore’s ex-wife, Elisabetta Gregoraci, said that Schumacher “doesn’t speak” but “communicates with his eyes.”
The model revealed that “only three people can visit him” and that Corinna “has set up a hospital” at their house.
Briatore led Benetton when Schumacher won his first two consecutive World Championships in 1994 and 1995
Mick, one of Schumacher and Corinna’s children, said in the 2021 Netflix documentary about his father’s life, “I think dad and me, we would understand each other now in a different way now.”
In the documentary, Corinna shared that her husband is undergoing a rehabilitation process and that he’s “different, but here.”