Jean Todt, the ex-boss and good friend of Michael Schumacher, has provided an update on the seven-time F1 world champion almost exactly ten years after the serious skiing accident. “He is no longer the Michael we knew,” L’Équipe reported.
December 29, 2013. Michael Schumacher suffers severe head trauma and a brain hemorrhage after a serious skiing accident in Meribel, France. The German record F1 world champion falls into a coma and will not be released from hospital until September 2014. Since then he has been staying at his home in Gland, a Swiss municipality on Lake Geneva. It is not clear exactly how he is doing: he has not appeared in public for ten years and his immediate family keeps his health a secret.
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If there is an update, it is often from Jean Todt, the man who was Michael Schumacher’s boss at Ferrari between 1996 and 2006 and has since been a good friend of the German. Even now, almost exactly ten years after the facts, he is once again talking about his poulain in the French newspaper L’Équipe. “Michael is here, so I don’t miss him,” Todt said. “But he is no longer the Michael he used to be. He is different, but fortunately he is beautifully surrounded by his wife and children who protect him. His life is different now, I have the privilege of sharing moments with him. That’s all there is to say. Unfortunately, disaster struck ten years ago and he is no longer the Michael we knew in Formula 1.”