Mr Schumacher’s Corinna, 47, his son Mick, 19, and daughter Gina-Maria, 21, have not revealed a great deal about his health since the accident in 2013. Last year, Corinna said: “The decision to protect his privacy from the public has been taken in Michael’s interest. “We have made it very clear that something serious has happened.”
What do we know about Schumacher’s health five years on?
The Formula One racing driver suffered a severe head injury after he hit his head on a rock while skiing at the Meribel resort in the French Alps on December 29, 2013.
After being put into a medically induced coma, he underwent two life-saving operations at Grenoble Hospital.
He was taken out from the coma in April 2014 and moved to a hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mr Schuamcher was then brought home a few months later in September 2014.
The next update about his health wasn’t announced until April 2015.
At this point, Mr Schumacher was showing “moments of consciousness and awakening”.
Three months later, a statement was then released saying he was no longer in a coma.
Last week the Prefect of the Pontifical House of the Holy See and personal secretary of Benedict XVI, Georg Gänswein spoke to German magazine Bunte about “Schumi’s” condition.
The German archbishop, who was previously a ski instructor, paid the record-breaking racing driver a visit.
He said: “I sat in front of him, I touched him with both hands, and I looked at him. His face, as we all know, is the typical face of Michael Schumacher; only that it has become a little more puffy.
“He feels that around him there are people who love him, who care about him and, thank God, keep the curious public away.
“A sick person needs discretion and understanding.”