It was on December 29, 2013, during a family vacation in the mountains, that the fate of Michael Schumacher suddenly tipped over: while skiing off-piste with his son Mick and friends, the seven-time Formula 1 world champion hit an obstacle, fell and hit his head against the edge of a rock below. Despite several days of coma, an operation and a vital prognosis, the champion is doing well.
But in what state ? For almost ten years… No one knows! Very well protected by his wife Corinna and his close family, he never reappeared in public and if we are now aware that he would be in a vegetative state, no information filters on his condition, his relatives refusing to talk to the press, talking about slight progress at most.
A recent testimony could however change everything: the former manager of the champion, Willi Weber, explained in the columns of the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sporte that he had “heard only lies from them [la famille, ndlr] go“. A serious accusation for him who knew the champion well at the start of his career but then fell out with him due to a serious argument.
“Telling it as it is”
At the end of the 2000s, a few years before the accident, the Formula 1 champion would have told him that he now wanted to be “his own manager“. A difficult situation that the businessman, now 80, says he understood. However, he did not appreciate the behavior of his family at the time of his accident.
“That day, I was at an event, I was in a hotel lobby and my cell phone rang. A friend told me that Michael had had a skiing accident, but it didn’t seem serious. Then they told me they were taking him to Grenoble hospital“, tells the daily the one who affirms that he would have ” done everything ” for ” Schumi “.
After trying to call Corinna, who has shared the life of her former protege since 1995, he falls back on his friends from the world of F1. “I call Jean Todt [ex-président de fédération internationale de F1] to ask him if he should go to the hospital. He tells me to wait, it’s too early, he repeats. I call the next day and no one answers, I let a few days pass so as not to disturb me, but I begin to understand that they wanted to leave me aside“, he recalled, now calling on the family to “tell it like it is”. Recently, his former Brazilian teammate Felipe Massa refused to comment despite having all the information.