- Ralf posted a picture on Instagram with him and another man standing on a boat
- Actress Carmen Geiss, a close friend, offered her full support for Ralf coming out
Formula One driver and brother of Michael Schumacher has come out as gay on social media.
The relative of the seven-time F1 champion took to Instagram on Sunday to post a picture of himself and another man standing arm-in-arm on a boat.
The caption on the image read: ‘The most beautiful thing in life is when you have the right partner by your side with whom you can share everything.’
Ralf’s close friend and German actress Carmen Geiss replied to his social media post, writing: ‘I LOVE YOU BOTH SO MUCH.
‘You have the best partner, Etienne, you can imagine. After two years you can finally show your love to the world. I have known Ralf for more than 25 years and he has always been a great joy to me.
‘Always liberal, a good-hearted person who I can call day and night and above all has always been honest with me in his position.
‘I am happy that I got to be a part of this love and even more happy for the two who searched and found each other, because I also love Étienne deeply.’
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In January it was revealed that Michael Schumacher is able to ‘sit at the dinner table’, according to retired star Johnny Herbert.
Schumacher – who won seven world championships throughout his career – was involved in a tragic skiing accident in December 2013 that left him in a medically induced coma.
The condition of Schumacher, who was put into an artificial coma and underwent several surgeries, has been shrouded in mystery ever since, with only brief updates coming from his inner circle.
However, it appears that there has been an update provided on the German, which former British F1 star Herbert revealed in a recent interview.
Speaking to BettingSites.co.uk, Herbert said: ‘I hear bits only second hand. I hear, from those within F1, he does sit at the table for dinner but don’t know if that is true. I can only read between the lines.
‘We haven’t heard much from the family and understandably so. That has always been very much a part of Michael and the family’s way to keep everything very private, very secretive.
‘That has carried on from his racing days. I don’t feel things have moved on in a way that many of us who knew him and many of his fans around the world want to see.
‘They’d love to know, we’d all love to know that things are moving on in a positive way. But because we don’t have any information, we can only assume that he is not yet in a position where there is a chance of a recovery’.