Michael Schumacher is able to ‘sit at the dinner table’ at his family’s luxury villa

Formula One legend Michael Schumacher is able to ‘sit at the dinner table’, according to retired star Johnny Herbert.

Schumacher – who won seven world championships throughout his career – was involved in a tragic skiing accident in December 2013 that left him in a medically induced coma

The condition of Schumacher, who was put into an artificial coma and underwent several surgeries, has been shrouded in mystery ever since, with only brief updates coming from his inner circle.

However, it appears now that their has been an update provided on the German, which former British F1 star Herbert revealed in a recent interview.

Speaking to BettingSites.co.uk, Herbert said: ‘I hear bits only second hand. I hear, from those within F1, he does sit at the table for dinner but don’t know if that is true. I can only read between the lines.

We haven’t heard much from the family and understandably so. That has always been very much a part of Michael and the family’s way to keep everything very private, very secretive.

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‘That has carried on from his racing days. I don’t feel things have moved on in a way that many of us who knew him and many of his fans around the world want to see.

‘They’d love to know, we’d all love to know that things are moving on in a positive way. But because we don’t have any information, we can only assume that he is not yet in a position where there is a chance of a recovery’.

The German is cared for by a team of medical staff and his wife Corinna at their Lake Geneva home, but little has been made public about his condition.

Herbert continued: ‘In my opinion, and I must stress this, because we haven’t heard anything from the family, it shows that unfortunately he is probably in the similar situation as he was straight after the accident.

In 2018, rumours began that Schumacher had secretly been moved to a private mansion on the Spanish island of Majorca by his wife Corinna, which were compounded in 2020 when Elisabetta Gregoraci – the ex-wife of Schumacher’s former boss at Benetton Flavio Briatore – made similar claims.

‘Michael doesn’t speak, he communicates with his eyes,’ Gregoraci said while appearing on Italy’s version of reality TV show Big Brother.

‘They moved to Spain and his wife has set up a hospital in that house. Only three people can visit him and I know who they are,’ she said.

But her claims were widely refuted by Schumacher’s family, manager and other sources, and it is widely accepted he remains in their Switzerland villa.

Schumacher’s family remain very protective of his privacy and it is understood that many of their close friends and relations are even unsure about the state of his health.

However, in the Netflix documentary ‘Schumacher’, which aired in 2021, his wife Corinna did provide a rare update.

She revealed he continues to undergo rehabilitation for the life-changing injuries he suffered and claimed he is now ‘different, but here’.