Michael Oher claims he was never hired, duped into going into conservatorship, and blindsided when it came to seeing ‘The Blindside’ money
According to a Tennessee court video obtained by ESPN on Monday, former NFL player Michael Oher was not welcomed by a wealthy white family as depicted in the 2009 movie “The Blindside.” If everything remained the same, the family allegedly used him to get more wealthy without taking into account his needs.
The request was allegedly recorded in the probate court of Shelby Region, Tennessee. It holds Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy accountable for taking Oher into their house as a secondary school student under a conservatorship they deceived him into, giving them the legal authority to negotiate deals on his behalf.
Oher, 37, allegedly wants the court to terminate the Tuohy family’s conservatorship, forbid them from using his name and likeness, and provide a thorough accounting of their financial gain from using his name. In addition to vague compensating and reformatory harms, he also allegedly wants a “fair” share of the benefits.
Oher: I didn’t receive money from ‘The Blind Side’
“The Blindside” saw incredible success from Oher’s plight to Super Bowl victory, but the article claims he took nothing positive away from the picture.
The Tuohys are also blamed for using that capacity to broker a deal that earned them, along with their two biological children, a significant sum of money from the Oscar-winning movie. In 2006, shortly after the publication of the book “Blindside: Development of the Game,” they began negotiations for a movie on their relationship with Oher.
The family members allegedly received $225,000 each in addition to 2.5% of the movie’s “characterized net returns.” The movie made over $300 million. According to the documentation, a 2007 additional agreement purportedly granted 20th Century Fox Studios the rights to Oher’s narrative with essentially no installment. He argues that he was misled into thinking he was agreeing to something different or that he doesn’t recall marking any such agreement.
Family’s alleged lie ‘devastated and wounded [Oher] deeply’
In preparation for his senior year of secondary school, Oher graded his papers with the expectation of being accepted into the family he believed was truly interested in him. He detailed this experience in detail in his 2011 blockbuster hit journal, “I Set heads spinning.”
He wrote, “They made sense to me that it basically means exactly the same thing as ‘new parents,’ but that the regulations were just constructed in a way that considered my age.
He allegedly lived his life under that assumption up until his 2016 NFL resignation.
The offensive tackle had a successful career at Ole Miss before being selected with the 23rd overall pick in 2009 by the Baltimore Ravens. The alleged deception wasn’t discovered by him until February 2023, to “his chagrin and embarrassment,” according to the filing. The family has utilized the narrative to advertise their foundation in addition to the alleged manipulation of the movie contract. Leigh Anne Tuohy still refers to Oher as her adoptive son in her writing and motivational speaking, however.
Oher on ‘The Blind Side’ stereotypes
The tape asserts that Oher’s problems with the Tuohy family began as a result of how he was portrayed as “unintelligent” in “The Visually Impaired Slide,” even if learning about the purported assets withheld and the fake reception were devastating blows.
Oher, who is Dark, claimed in his 2011 book that he was an accomplished football player who played for a very long time before the Tuohys entered his life. The likelihood that Sandra Bullock’s character Leigh Anne Tuohy actually taught him the game by using analogies to protect the family is heavily implied in the movie.
Oher also stated that he is friendlier and more joyous than the character introduced by comedian Quinton Aaron, who rarely smiled in the movie. In fact, Oher was already making it clear that he could have done without the way that the movie followed him throughout his career in 2015 when he was playing for the Carolina Pumas. Oher runs a nonprofit with the goal of empowering underprivileged adolescents by giving them access to opportunities in higher education, mentoring, and healthy living. He reiterated earlier this month that the foundation will assist children “whether they play football or not.”
Seah Tuohy: ‘We’re devastated’
On Monday night, Sean Tuohy spoke with Geoff Calkins of the Everyday Memphian and claimed he and his family have been “crushed” by the claims. Sean requested that the money they made from “The Blindside” was negligible and divided equally. He reportedly sold the majority of his cheap eateries for more than $200 million. Sean stated that he would “obviously” end the conservatorship. They assured that the primary reason they did it in any instance was because it was the primary option.
Sean said they are willing to do anything Oher requests, even if he is upset to be protecting himself and acknowledged that they felt distant from Oher about a year and a half ago.
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