Michael Oher, retired NFL star and subject of
The Blind Side movie, has petitioned a Tennessee court, alleging that the Tuohy family never adopted him, despite the story the movie has spread around, and instead tricked him into a conservatorship that would allow them to control his finances.
Oher apparently did not discover the length of this deception until February of this year, which is why the petition is being filed now.
Oher was already a football player at Briarcrest Christian School when he met the Tuohy family; the family claims to have adopted him in 2004, but Oher’s 2011 book
I Beat the Odds made it clear that they used a conservatorship in place of an adoption and claimed it was due to Oher already being a legal adult. At the time, Oher seemingly believed that justification.
Oher himself has previously
voiced frustration with how the film affected how others viewed his intelligence and leadership skills, as well as with
how the movie has defined his career as much as any of his personal successes. Oher has won a Super Bowl and written two books, but the film based on the book the Tuohys wrote is still where many people know him from. This, combined with the newfound knowledge that he may not have received any royalties from the film due to his conservatorship—despite the family’s financial profits from the film and the opportunities it has generated for them, along with using Oher’s name to promote their work—definitely casts the film, and the family, in a new light.
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