Michael is here .. different, but here
Corinna opens up about her heartbreak in documentary
MICHAEL Schumacher’s wife has stayed by his side since his horror skiing accident eight years ago.
And yet the legendary ex-Formula 1 champion’s wife Corinna has revealed that she misses the man she married.
Corrina, 52, who married the German sports star in 1995, said: “I miss Michael every day.
“Michael is here – different, but here. He still shows me how strong he is every day.”
In December 2013 soon after retiring, Michael was ski-ing offpiste in Meribel, France, with his then 14-year-old son Mick when he hit his head on a rock.
Despite wearing a helmet, Michael suffered a serious injury.
After being air-lifted to a hospital in Grenoble, he underwent two operations before being placed in a medically-induced coma for six months to reduce the swelling on his brain.
He has since returned to his Lake Geneva home, where he is reportedly cared for by Corinna and a team of medical staff.
A new Netflix documentary, Schumacher, is set to chart his meteoric rise to fame and shed a light on his personal and family life following the ski-ing accident.
It reveals that the accident almost didn’t happen, as Michael believed the snow in Meribel wasn’t optimal.
The family nearly flew to Dubai to go skydiving instead before the sports star changed his mind.
Until the accident, Corinna says that she believed her husband was invincible and had “guardian angels” looking after him thanks to his escapes from serious injury during his 17-year career.
She said: “We’d always made it through his races safely, 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. It was just really bad luck – all the bad luck anyone could ever have in their life.”
Corinna has been criticised by some people ove claims she has been hiding the truth about the legend’s health from his fans.
But she said: “‘Private is private’ as he always said. It’s very important to me that he can continue to enjoy his private life.”
Schumacher is on Netflix from September 15.