Michael Schumacher is ‘a case without hope’, reveals his close friend in tragic health update after almost 10 years of care following F1 icon’s skiing accident

Michael Schumacher is a ‘case without hope’, says good friend Roger Benoit.

The seven-time world champion, who suffered life-threatening injuries in a skiing accident in the French Alps in 2013, has not been seen in public for more than a decade.

After falling in the snow and hitting his head against a rock, Schumacher spent 250 days in a medically induced coma in hospital before being allowed to return home.

Few have seen or visited Schumacher since he suffered his near-fatal brain injury, and reports of the German’s condition are extremely rare.

Some friends and even family members have been kept in the dark by those closest to him in an effort to prevent leaks to the press.

Schumacher (pictured skiing in Italy in 2005) hit a rock while skiing in Meribel in 2013 and suffered a near-fatal brain injury that left him in a medically induced coma for six months.

The German is regarded as one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time, with seven world titles to his name

Benoit, a close friend of Schumacher’s and a Formula 1 journalist, has claimed the 54-year-old’s case is one ‘without hope’ in a tragic health update this week.

In an interview with Swiss newspaper Blick, Benoit declined to provide a specific update on Schumacher’s condition.

When asked, he replied, “No. There is only one answer to this question and that is what his son Mick gave in one of his rare interviews in 2022: “I would give anything to talk to dad”.

“This sentence says everything about how his father has been doing for more than 3,500 days. A case without hope.’

Schumacher’s son Mick, who drove for Formula 1 team Haas in 2021 and 2022 and is now reserve driver for Mercedes and McLaren, said last year: “I think Dad and I would understand each other in a different way now.

Schumacher’s son Mick (above), who drove for Formula 1 team Haas in 2021 and 2022, said last year: ‘I think dad and I would understand each other in a different way now’

“We would have had a lot more to talk about and that’s what I do most of the time thinking that would be so cool. I would give up everything just for that.

“These moments that I think many people have with their parents are no longer there, or to a lesser extent.”

Wife Corinna broke her eight-year-long silence about the accident in the 2021 Netflix documentary Schumacher, revealing that he’s “different” since the injury, but still “here.”

“Michael is here,” said the 54-year-old. ‘Different, but he’s here, and that gives us strength, I see.

‘We are together. We live together at home. We do therapy. We are doing everything we can to make Michael better and make sure he is comfortable.

And to simply make him feel our family, our bond. And whatever happens, I’ll do everything I can. We all will.

His wife Corinna bursts into tears during the 2021 Netflix documentary Schumacher about the life of the German driver. She reveals he’s ‘different’ since the injury, but still ‘here’

Michael in archive footage with his family in the 2021 Netflix documentary Schumacher

“We are trying to move on as a family, as Michael liked and still does. And we move on with our lives.

“I never blamed God for what happened. It was just a lot of bad luck – all the bad luck a person can have in life.

“It’s always terrible when you say, ‘Why is this happening to Michael or to us?’ But why does it happen to other people then?’

Family friend and Formula 1 icon Eddie Jordan said earlier this year that Corinna had refused to let him visit Schumacher.

“This was the most horrifying situation for Mick and Corinna,” Jordan told OLBG in March.

Corinna, 52, (pictured with Michael in Italy in 2005) admitted: ‘I miss Michael every day. But it’s not just me who misses him. It’s the children, the family, his father, everyone around him.’

Family friend Eddie Jordan has revealed that Corinna had refused to let him visit Schumacher

“It’s been almost ten years now and Corinna hasn’t been able to go to a party, or have lunch or this or that. She’s like a prisoner because everyone would want to talk to her about Michael when she doesn’t need to be reminded every minute.

“I know her very well and long before Michael Schumacher.

“She’s a sweet girl and I knew her when she married Michael, so there’s a long history of good relationships.

“I made an effort to visit Michael at first, but Corinna refused, and rightly so, because too many people wanted to see him.”