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The Blind Side mates Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy person surfaced publically for the archetypal clip since Michael Oher filed a suit against them. Leigh Anneand Sean were seen walking unneurotic done their Santa Rosa Beach vicinity successful Florida connected August 20, arsenic seen successful photos connected Daily Mail.
Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy with their daughter. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)
Leigh Anne looked casual successful a achromatic T-shirt, airy pinkish skirt, and agleam pinkish fanny pack. Sean wore an orangish garment and navy pants. The mates walked alongside an unidentified antheral extracurricular their Florida mansion.
Leigh Anne and Sean person been dealing with the fallout of Michael alleging that they tricked him into becoming his conservator successful a bombshell lawsuit filed connected August 14. Michael, whose beingness communicative inspired the Oscar-winning 2009 movie The Blind Side, claimed successful his tribunal filing that the Tuohys led him to judge they adopted him and “have utilized that untruth to summation fiscal advantages for themselves and the foundations which they ain oregon which they workout control.”
Michael revealed successful the tribunal documents that helium did not cognize astir the conservatorship until February 2023, and the conservatorship was expected to extremity erstwhile helium was 25. He’s present 37.
The Tuohys yet responded to Michael’s lawsuit. Sean told The Daily Memphian that helium and Leigh Anne were “devastated” implicit the situation. “It’s upsetting to deliberation we would marque wealth disconnected immoderate of our children. But we’re going to emotion Michael astatine 37 conscionable similar we loved him astatine 16,” helium said.
Michael Oher during his clip with the Baltimore Ravens. (Shutterstock)
Sean claimed that lawyers told him and Leigh Anne years agone that they “couldn’t adopt” Michael since helium was implicit 18, and the “only happening we could bash was to person a conservatorship” truthful Michael could spell to Ole Miss and play football. Sean revealed that helium supports immoderate Michael decides to do. “We’re not successful this for thing different than immoderate helium wants. If he’d person said, ‘I don’t privation to beryllium portion of the household anymore,’ we’d person been precise upset, but we perfectly would person done it,” the restaurateur said.
Michael broke his silence regarding the suit and said successful a connection to the New York Post that helium was “disheartened by the revelation” successful the petition. The erstwhile NFL subordinate admitted that “this is simply a hard concern for my household and me. I privation to inquire everyone to delight respect our privateness astatine this time. For now, I volition fto the suit talk for itself and volition connection nary further comment.”
Three days aft the suit was filed, Leigh Anne and Sean disclosed done their lawyers that they would beryllium ending the conservatorship for Michael. Their lawyers claimed successful a property league that Michael and Tuohys had been estranged for implicit a decade.
