{"id":581315,"date":"2026-04-02T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581315\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:37:13","slug":"michael-schumachers-daughter-gina-speaks-out-on-life-in-the-aftermath-of-her-legendary-fathers-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581315\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schumacher’s daughter Gina speaks out on life in the aftermath of her legendary father’s accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

By LUKE POWER, SPORTS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 06:47 EDT, 2 April 2026 | Updated: 09:39 EDT, 2 April 2026 <\/p>\n

Michael Schumacher<\/a>‘s daughter Gina has opened up on life in the immediate aftermath of her father’s tragic skiing accident in France in 2013.<\/p>\n

Schumacher, 57,\u00a0has not been seen in public since the crash which left him in a coma for almost six months after heavy bleeding and bruising on his brain.<\/p>\n

On a family skiing holiday in Meribel, he fractured his skull, leading to a traumatic brain injury. He was put into a coma and had two brain surgeries.<\/p>\n

The seven-time Formula One world champion’s life has been shrouded in mystery ever since, with only a limited circle of tight-lipped loved ones allowed to see him.<\/p>\n

Daily Mail Sport revealed in January that Schumacher\u00a0is now sitting up in a wheelchair – no longer bedridden – and can be pushed around his \u00a330million estate in Majorca and his \u00a350million residence at Gland, on the shores of Lake Geneva.\u00a0He is cared for by Corinna, his wife of 30 years, along with a team of nurses and therapists who keep a 24-hour watch costing tens of thousands of pounds a week.<\/p>\n

Now his daughter, Gina-Maria Bethke, has revealed that her father’s tragedy left her in such a state that she had to bury herself in one of her passions: horses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘After Dad\u2019s accident, I really threw myself into it because I had to do something,’ the 29-year-old, a millionaire equestrian, said on an upcoming documentary titled ‘Horsepower \u2013 The World of Gina Schumacher’, via BILD<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Michael Schumacher’s daughter Gina says that turning to horses helped her in the wake of her father’s tragedy\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Schumacher has not been seen publicly since his skiing accident in France in 2013\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘The horses have always been important. But since then they\u2019ve really been\u2026 I mean, I couldn\u2019t do without horses. They helped me get through everything .<\/p>\n

‘She [my mother] used to have a horse, and when we were younger, she wanted to start again. But she wanted a safe horse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Then she was in Dubai with Dad, and they rode Arabians. Dad fell off one. There was a Quarter Horse next to it, and he was there to calm the others down. And then Mum said she wanted a horse like that.”‘<\/p>\n

She added: ‘I’m grateful that I can do this. Because it’s not something to take for granted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘My parents made it possible. That’s why it’s always been important to me to work hard in this area, so that I can do it as well as I possibly can.’<\/p>\n

Her mother, Corinna, added: ‘Michael once said to me, when Gina was ten: “Gina will be much better than you.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘He explained: “Because she’s more selfish. If you’re an athlete, you have to be selfish in a certain way. And that’s great. Otherwise, you won’t amount to anything.” Today I think: he was so right.’<\/p>\n

Last April, Gina gave birth to her first child with husband\u00a0Iain Bethke, who she married in September 2024. They married at the\u00a0family’s luxury villa in Majorca, which they bought for \u00a327million in 2017.<\/p>\n

BILD\u00a0reported that it was ‘very likely’ that her father was present, though this was disputed.<\/p>\n

One rumour speculated that the man dubbed the first billionaire sportsman was suffering from pseudocoma, or locked-in syndrome \u2013 a condition in which patients are conscious and fully aware but unable to respond other than by blinking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, multiple sources told Daily Mail Sport’s F1 doyen Jonathan McEvoy that this is inaccurate.<\/p>\n

‘The feeling is he understands some of the things going on around him, but probably not all of them,’ said one.<\/p>\n

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