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Michael Oher Doesn’t Have to Be Grateful to the Tuohys
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Michael Oher, the subject of The Blind Side, ignited a firestorm of conversation around race, adoption, and exploitation when he dropped a bombshell lawsuit this week alleging that the family depicted in the Oscar-winning film profited handsomely off his life story without ever actually adopting him. The former NFL lineman alleges that, shortly after he turned 18, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into a conservatorship arrangement that allowed for the Tuohys to do business in Oher’s name and keep the fruits of The Blind Side’s commercial success for themselves. Now 37, Oher says he was disheartened to learn he was never formally adopted by the Touhys. “This is a difficult situation for my family and me,” he said in a statement.
The pushback against his claims has been swift. The Tuohys have vehemently denied the allegations, and their lawyer called Oher’s lawsuit a “shakedown.” Author Michael Lewis, who wrote the book upon which the film is based and is a childhood friend of Sean Tuohy’s, told the Washington Post that he thought it was faster for the Tuohys to go through the conservatorship process than to adopt Oher. “They showered him with resources and love,” Lewis said. “Tha
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Michael Oher, the inspiration behind 'The Blind Side,' has been critical of the controversial film for over a decade — here's everything he's said
- On Monday, Michael Oher filed a lawsuit alleging the adoption story behind "The Blind Side" is a lie.
- According to the filing, he was never adopted by the Tuohy family — he was put into a legal conservatorship.
- Oher has been publicly critical of the Oscar-winning movie dating back to at least 2011.
On Monday, Michael Oher, the ex-NFL star and the inspiration behind the Sandra Bullock hit film "The Blind Side," alleged in court documents obtained by Insider that the Tuohy family never actually adopted him. Instead, the filing states, the family used him as a "gullible" young man who could be "exploited for their own benefit."
In the document, filed in probate court in Shelby County, Tennessee, Oher claims that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy — who took Oher into their home when he was in high school — tricked him into signing documents that entered him into a conservatorship three months after his 18th birthday in 2004. Before he turned 18, Oher was a ward of the foster care system in Tennessee.
Oher said in the filing that he signed the conservatorship papers, believing they were adoption pape