Ralf Schumacher calls his ex-wife a LIAR and leaks her WhatsApp chats after she claimed she ‘wasted her best years’

Ralf Schumacher has inflamed the row between himself and his ex-wife by branding her a ‘liar’ and leaking WhatsApp messages she sent congratulating his new partner. 

Cora Schumacher dropped jaws at the weekend when she claimed she had ‘wasted’ 14 years married to a man who in July came out as gay. 

Former F1 driver Ralf revealed last month that he is in a relationship with his French business manager Etienne, with Cora telling Der Spiegel she had been unaware and felt ‘stabbed in the heart’. 

Now Ralf has published screenshots of an alleged exchange from last year in which Cora congratulates Etienne on their union, indicating that Cora knew all along – a move she has decried as ‘pathetic’ and ‘illegal’.

In the messages, Cora appears to say ‘congrats’ and ‘so happy for you both’ as she tells Etienne that she was told he had got married to Ralf due to them wearing rings on their right hands.

In what feels an awkward exchange, Etienne dismisses her and says that in France people wear their rings on the left after getting married.

The conversation ends on good terms as Cora says ‘I’m happy for you guys’ – the antithesis of her sentiment in the Der Spiegel interview – while Etienne says ‘thank you Cora’.