The University of Mississippi
Michael Oher, the former NFL star whose story was famously dramatized in the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side, revealed in a Tennessee court filing Monday that the film’s central premise—his adoption by the white, wealthy Tuohy family—was actually a big lie.
Instead, Oher alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, the parents who invited him to live with them for his senior year of high school, tricked him into signing a document that made them his conservators under the guise of adoption.
Oher said he signed the document less than three months after he turned 18, trusting the family when they said the conservator agreement was necessary to join their family because he was no longer a minor. In reality, Oher now claims the document meant he never officially joined the Tuohy family at all, despite Sean and Leigh Anne insisting he call them mom and dad. The document did allow the Tuohys to profit millions off his story, however, while he claims to have made zilch from The Blind Side directly.