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Michael Oher spoke retired aft filing a ineligible petition, wherever helium claimed that Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy never adopted him, successful a connection to The New York Post on Monday, Aug. 14. The erstwhile NFL player, 37, asked for fans to respect his privacy, aft opening up astir the “difficult situation,” learning that he’d been successful a conservatorship, alternatively than being legally adopted.
Michael, who was the taxable of the publication and movie The Blind Side, filed the lawsuit, requesting the conservatorship to extremity and an injunction connected the Tuohy household utilizing his name, arsenic good arsenic compensation. “I americium disheartened by the revelation shared successful the suit today,” helium said. “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.”
Michael said helium was ‘disheartened’ by the caller discovery. (Shutterstock)
The ineligible filing claims that the erstwhile NFL subordinate didn’t larn that he’d been successful a conservatorship until February 2023. They besides said that helium didn’t marque immoderate wealth from the deed movie, per ESPN. “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. “All monies made successful said mode should successful each conscience and equity beryllium disgorged and paid implicit to the said ward, Michael Oher.”
After quality broke of the petition, Sean opened up astir the lawsuit successful a connection to The Daily Memphian. “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. “Everybody successful the household got an adjacent stock [of wealth from the movie], including Michael. It was astir $14,000, each. We were ne'er offered money; we ne'er asked for money. My wealth is well-documented; you tin look up however overmuch I sold my institution for.”
The Tuohy’s youngest child Sean “SJ” Tuohy also spoke astir the filing successful an interrogation with Barstool Sports. H said that helium recovered immoderate of the claims “hard to believe,” but helium lone shared emotion for Michael. “I’m going to preface this by saying I loved Mike astatine 16… I emotion Mike present astatine 37 and I emotion him astatine 67,” helium said astatine the start.
