Retired NFL star Michael Oher, whose story was immortalized in 'The Blind Side,' alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him. He alleges that they tricked him into ceding his authority to make business deals by making them his conservators.
In a 14-page petition filed Monday in Shelby County, Tenn., Oher alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never actually adopted him, instead tricking him into ceding his authority to make business deals by making them his conservators at age 18.
Oher was raised a child with 11 siblings, and his mother struggled with drug addiction. At 10 years old, he was placed into the foster care system, and he spent the majority of his adolescence moving from home to home, at times living on the streets. As a teenage sports prodigy, Oher was introduced to the principal of a private Christian school in an affluent Memphis neighborhood, where he began playing football.
Based on the report, the Tuohy family struck the deal for the film with an agent at CAA, while Oher’s agent is listed as Debra Branan, “a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the 2004 conservatorship petition.”
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