Michael Oher Claims ‘Blind Side’ Adoption Was A Lie, Petitions Court

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Michael Oher, a retired NFL participant who had the film Blind Facet primarily based on his life, is stepping ahead with claims {that a} central piece of that story is a lie.

Within the movie, Oher, who’s Black, is portrayed as a big-time soccer participant caught in a poverty-stricken state of affairs till his white adoptive mother and father – Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy – took him in. Nevertheless, Oher is now stating that he was by no means formally adopted. As an alternative, he claims to have been misled, and states in a petition that he was tricked into signing a doc that made the Tuohys his conservator, giving them rights to make enterprise selections on his behalf.

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Oher claims that he was cheated out of his share of tens of millions of {dollars} in royalties after Blind Facet earned greater than $300 million on the field workplace and was nominated for a number of awards. Oher has now petitioned the Tennesse court docket that granted the conservatorship for, amongst different issues, his share of the earnings.

The Tuohys have but to make a public assertion.

From ESPN:

However there are some essential authorized distinctions. If Oher had been adopted by the Tuohys, he would have been a authorized member of their household, and he would have retained energy to deal with his personal monetary affairs. Beneath the conservatorship, Oher surrendered that authority to the Tuohys, although he was a authorized grownup with no identified bodily or psychological disabilities.

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