Formula One legend Michael Schumacher is ‘very altered and deteriorated’ six years on from his horrific skiing accident, a leading neurosurgeon has warned.

The former Ferrari driver, 51, suffered a near-fatal brain injury back in December 2013 when he fell and hit his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the French Alps.

Schumacher is now out of a long-term coma, but Nicola Acciari, who works for a hospital in Bologna, claims he is now ‘a person very different from the one we remember on the track’.

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