Sabine Kehm reveals: “Schumacher would have liked to retire to private life”

To the German newspaper Southgerman newspaper, Sabine Kehm has revealed an important indiscretion about Michael Schumacher, for whom she was manager and press officer. The seven-time world champion declared to Kehm - before the skiing accident which occurred on 29 December 2013 on the slopes of Meribel - his intention to retire to private life, a "luxury" which in her twenty-year successful career is difficult to achieve. could have been allowed.

"In one of the many chats we had before the accident – Kehm declared -, Michael told me that there was no longer any need to call him back because he had decided to put aside the public sphere to dedicate himself to the private one. I think this was always his wish".  

The former Ferrari driver is currently in his villa in Gland, Switzerland, where he continues the long rehabilitation process. In recent years there has been no shortage of speculation about his state of health, which has led the family to remain completely silent: "Unfortunately we have no alternatives – continued Kehm -. Our every word could be misinterpreted, thus generating an infinite media vortex".

Piero Ladisa

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