Michael Schumacher health update: Major progress for F1 legend as star 'is no longer bed bound' 12 years after ski accident

The 57-year-old was left with a traumatic brain injury after becoming involved in an incident in the French Alps while on holiday in 2013. Schumacher was put into a medically-induced coma for six months, and was later left paralysed.

Very few updates about his condition over the past 12 years have been made public, and Schumacher hasn’t been seen in public for more than a decade.

However, new reports from the Mail Sport have provided a rare insight on his current condition, with the newspaper claiming that the F1 icon is no longer bed bound and can move around in his wheelchair with the assistance of his medical team and carers.

He is still reportedly receiving round-the-clock care and even watches Formula 1 Grands Prix alongside his former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt. Todt is said to be one of the few visitors outside of his family who are welcomed to the family home in Gland, Switzerland.

Todt previously told Italian outlet La Repubblica: “The family has decided not to answer the question [about Schumacher’s health], a choice that I respect. I see him regularly and with affection, him and his family. Our bond goes beyond the past work. It is part of my life which today is very far from Formula One."

One anonymous source told Mail Sport that the extent to which Schumacher understands following his brain injury in still unknown as he remains unable to communicate. They said: "You can't be sure whether he understands everything because he cannot tell anyone. The feeling is that he understands some of the things going on around him, but probably not all of them."

Reports surfaced in 2024 that Schumacher was due to attend the wedding of his daughter, however this ultimately proved to be untrue.

Richard Hopkins, a friend of Schumacher's who he shared the Ferrari paddock with during the height of his F1 success, told The Daily Express earlier this month that the ‘Keep Fighting Michael’ campaign, which was launched in 2016, was still ongoing.

The former F1 mechanic and logistics boss told the newspaper: "The Keep Fighting Michael campaign is still alive. Obviously, as time goes on, there are fewer and fewer people, and it sort of dilutes a little bit. But everybody keeps thinking about him. You can't not think about Michael and his situation.

"We always reflect on the anniversary. And obviously, with the significant anniversaries, the 10 years, the 20 years, and the 25, and so on and so forth. But we hear about him constantly throughout the year, which is fantastic. You can never forget the guy. He was such a machine, such a master of his class."

He added: "I think all of us, and it's just human nature, want to know. We would love to know. But I guess for some people, and me included, not knowing is okay as well. Unfortunately, we create our own ideas. But we can only imagine that not a lot is being said because there's maybe not a lot to say.

"We're not seeing him because maybe the family don't want him to be seen in the condition he's in. That obviously generates your own ideas and images, and I think we all probably have a similar idea of the state that he's in. We're probably not too far off the mark in our assumptions of where he's at right now.”