‘The Blind Side’s Michael Oher Claims Tuohy Family Never Adopted Him & Denied Him Money Made From Film

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Michael Oher filed a ineligible petition against Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy claiming that they hadn’t adopted him and kept him from making wealth connected Monday, Aug 14, per ESPN. The erstwhile NFL player, 37, said that alternatively than adopting him, the household convinced him to motion paperwork putting him successful a conservatorship. Michael’s communicative had served arsenic the inspiration for the Oscar-winning movie The Blind Side. In the filing, helium claimed that the Tuohy household lied astir the adoption elements of the story.

The petition asks for the conservatorship to extremity and that the Tuohys volition not beryllium capable to usage Michael’s sanction and likeness. He’s besides seeking wealth that the household earned him from utilizing his sanction and story, arsenic good arsenic different compensatory and punitive damages. “Since astatine slightest August of 2004, Conservators person allowed Michael, specifically, and the public, generally, to judge that Conservators adopted Michael and person utilized that untruth to summation fiscal advantages for themselves and the foundations which they ain oregon which they workout control,” the filing says.

Michael said helium didn’t cognize astir the conservatorship until February 2023. (Shutterstock / Alexis C Glenn/UPI/Shutterstock)

The petition claims that the Tuohys had told Michael that they would legally follow him aft helium turned 18 successful 2004. He alleged that the household told him that since helium was implicit the property of 18, the adoption would beryllium called a conservatorship, according to NBC News. “At nary constituent did the Tuohys pass Michael that they would person eventual power of each his contracts, and arsenic a effect Michael did not recognize that if the Conservatorship was granted, helium was signing distant his close to declaration for himself,” the filing says.

The conservatorship was expected to beryllium dissolved erstwhile Michael turned 25, but it was not. The erstwhile NFL subordinate didn’t larn astir this until earlier this year. “Michael Oher discovered this prevarication to his chagrin and embarrassment successful February of 2023, erstwhile helium learned that the Conservatorship to which helium consented connected the ground that doing truthful would marque him a subordinate of the Tuohy family, successful information provided him nary familial narration with the Tuohys,” the filing says.