On September 15, the documentary about Michael Schumacher will be released on Netflix and some excerpts of the family’s impressions on the current status of the seven-time F1 world champion have come to light.
Since I suffered a serious skiing accident in Switzerland in December 2013, Michael Schumacher he has had to fight for his life in a very different way than he did inside a car on the circuits.
The serious physical and neurological consequences of the event have completely changed the life of the Schumacher family, who have always wanted to keep Michael’s real state private. However, the creation of a documentary about the life of this sports icon has shed some light on the feelings that family members experience on a daily basis with this harsh situation.
“Of course I miss Michael every day,” admits Corinna Schumacher on camera. “But not just me: the children, the family, his father, everyone around him. Everybody misses Michael, but Michael is here. Different, but he is here, and that gives us strength, I think ».
“Michael always protected us, now we are protecting Michael”
Michael’s wife has become the pillar on which the family rests, whose closest nucleus is also made up of his two children: Gina-María and Nick. “We are together. We live together at home, we do therapy. We do everything we can to make Michael better and to make sure he feels comfortable, simply to make our family feel our bond. And whatever happens, I’ll do everything I can. We will all do it.
“We are trying to continue as a family in the way that Michael liked and still does. And we move on with our lives. “The private is the private,” he always said. It is very important to me that he can continue to enjoy his private life as much as possible. Michael always protected us, now we are protecting Michael », reveals Corinna in relation to the importance of family privacy in the current situation.
Mick Schumacher: “It’s unfair”
The current Haas driver in Formula 1 and son of Michael, Mick schumacher, also expresses his feelings in the documentary, admitting that he misses sharing his sporting success with his father.
«Since the accident, these experiences, these moments that I think many people have with their parents are no longer present, or to a lesser extent, and in my opinion that’s a bit unfair “, claims Mick Schumacher.
“I think Dad and I would understand each other in a different way now simply because we speak a similar language, the language of motor racing, and we would have a lot more to talk about. And that’s where my head is most of the time, thinking it would be cool. I would give up everything just for that. “, concludes.