re: Michael Oher alleges his adoption was a lie, family took all the film proceeds

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are you that naive to where you need movies to be made aware of the sliminess of college football?

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No. I am not. However, it is very rare that the sliminess of college football gets morphed into an Oscar-winning blockbuster film. Moreover, it is even rarer for that sliminess to be morphed into propaganda with a message of wholesome goodness.

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1. She is married to Michael Oher. 2. She is black. 3. She is a female. 4. She has 4 kids. 5. She owns/owned a boutique.

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100% she is behind this

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If it's true that he received zero money from the movie, and he had zero input, why in the world is he just now saying something.

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He wrote a book shortly after the movie to clear up some of the mistakes.

The Touhy’s needed money…they were poor folks looking for a break***

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Most of it could've been researched and written before the author heard from his friend about taking Oher into his home.

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I agree, but you're still squeezing the Oher storyline into a relatively small timeframe between being taken in and a book being written.

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frick Ole Miss
frick Briarcrest
frick Leigh Anne Tuohy

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May I frick Sandra Bullock?

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The book isn't just about Oher. Most of it could've been researched and written before the author heard from his friend about taking Oher into his home.

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I THINK the author and Tuohy went to Newman together. That makes the book timeline not so insane….assuming they were still in touch with one another otherwise.

Sean Touhy responded.

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I don't know about the laws in MS then relative to adult adoptions, but you can adopt an adult if the adult consents currently.

Sean Tuohy is defending his family from "insulting" allegations.

The Tuohy patriarch—played by Tim McGraw in the 2009 movie The Blind Side—spoke out to explain his side after former NFL player Michael Oher filed legal paperwork alleging the family had lied about adopting him as a teen.

Michael, now 37, alleges Sean and wife Leigh Anne Tuohy (played by Sandra Bullock onscreen) "falsely advised" him to sign a document in 2004 that made them his conservators—giving them the legal power to complete business deals in his name—after he turned 18 years old, according to the petition obtained by E! News Aug. 14. The athlete accuses the Tuohys of having "enriched themselves" and profited from the "lie" by taking their life story to the big screen.

Sean reacted to the filing Aug. 14, telling the Daily Memphian that his family is "devastated" over the allegations.

"It's upsetting to think we would make money off any of our children," he said. "But we're going to love Michael at 37 just like we loved him at 16."

The Blind Side grossed $300 million, with Michael's paperwork stating that the movie paid the Tuohys and their children Sean Jr. and Collins $225,000 each, on top of 2.5 percent of the sports film's "defined net proceeds."

Yet, Sean told the outlet, "We didn't make any money off the movie."

The sports commentator then clarified that The Blind Side book author Michael Lewis "gave us half of his share."

"Everybody in the family got an equal share, including Michael. It was about $14,000, each," the 63-year-old continued. "We were never offered money; we never asked for money."

Sean noted, "I will say it's upsetting that people would think I would want to make money off any of my children."

As for Michael's claim about the conservatorship, Sean told the Daily Memphian the legal arrangement was allegedly meant to satisfy the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), which Michael played football for while at the University of Mississippi.

"They said the only way Michael could go to Ole Miss was if he was actually part of the family," Sean said. "I sat Michael down and told him, ‘If you're planning to go to Ole Miss—or even considering Ole Miss—we think you have to be part of the family. This would do that, legally.' We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn't adopt over the age of 18; the only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship."

He added that he would be willing to end the conservatorship if Michael would like.

For his part, Michael feels he was "falsely advised by the Tuohys that because he was over the age of eighteen, that the legal action to adopt Michael would have to be called a ‘conservatorship' but it was, for all intents and purposes, an adoption," per his filing.

He said he only "discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment" in February 2023, when he learned the document was not the "equivalent" of adoption papers and that the conservatorship "to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys."

The document accused the Tuohys of allowing Michael and the public to believe they adopted him "and have used that untruth to gain financial advantages for themselves."

The filing added, "All monies made in said manner should in all conscience and equity be disgorged and paid over to the said ward, Michael Oher."

E! News has reached out to reps for Michael, the Tuohys and the NCAA for comment and has not heard back.

This story makes no sense. Did Michael get paid anything or not?

The point about whether he knew he was adopted or not seems to be moot since the distinction arose from the fact that he was over 18. He never seemed to be forced into this arrangement

So it comes back to whether or not he was paid- the family says he was and that they all received the same. If that isn’t true, pay the dude the $15-20k he should have gotten and move on.

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I don't know about the laws in MS then relative to adult adoptions, but you can adopt an adult if the adult consents currently.

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>Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia all allow the adoption of any person, regardless of age.

> In addition, an adult between the age of 18 and 21 may be adopted in Colorado, Rhode Island, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

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