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BY KIM ABRAHAMS

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IT’S been six years since Formula One legend MICHAEL major operations.
SCHUMACHER suffered a near-fatal accident while
skiing in the French Alps.
After undergoing two operations and months of
rehab treatment, the seven-time world champ was
finally allowed to return to his home in Geneva, Swit-
zerland. But since then updates about his condition
have been few and far between.
His wife, CORINNA (50), has consistently remained
tight-lipped over the state of herhusband’s healthand
what, if any, progress he’smade since his injury whichini-
tially resulted in him being placed in amedicallyinduced
coma. In a rare public statement last year, Corinna gave
hope to devoted fans by posting a message online saying,
“Big things start with small steps.”
But leading neurosurgeon Nicola Acciari recently warned
fans not to get their hopes up, explaining that the 51-year-
old German star would probably be unrecognisable.
“We must imagine a person very different from the
one we remember on the track, with a very
altered and deteriorated organic, muscular ‘We must imagine a person very
and skeletal structure as a result of different from the one we remember’
the brain trauma he suffered.” – NEUROSURGEON NICOLA ACCIARI

TAYLOR SWIFT’S

secret heartache

SHE’S usually guarded about her private life but as a film crew
followed her to shoot Miss Americana, a new Netflix documentary
about her career, TAYLOR SWIFT (30) didn’t hold back.
Much to the delight of her fans the pop star finally touched
on her uber-private romance with British actor Joe Alwyn (28),
admitting she was attracted to him because of his “wonderful,
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normal, balanced kind of life”.
The Lover songbird also admitted to battling an eating
disorder as a result of life in the spotlight.
“It’s only happened a few times, but sometimes I’ll
see a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my
tummy was too big and that’ll trigger me to just
starve a little bit – just stop eating.”
But perhaps her biggest revelation was that her
mother, ANDREA SWIFT (62), is battling cancer
for a second time and has a brain tumour.
“While she was going through treatment [for
cancer], they found a brain tumour and the
symptoms of what a person goes through
when they have a brain tumour is nothing like
what we’ve ever been through with her cancer
TWITTER@PAMFOUNDATION, HBO MAX ‘Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important
before. So, it’s just been a really hard time for
us as a family.”

mom. But for me, she’s really the guiding force’

SOURCES: THESUN.CO.UK, HOLLYWOODLIFE.COM, CONTROCOPERTINA.COM, EXPRESS.DE, VARIETY.COM – TAYLOR SWIFT you.co.za 6 FEBRUARY 2020 | 99