Michael Oher KNEW The Tuohys Were His Conservators More Than A Decade Ago?! Here's The Proof...
17.08.2023 - 18:01
/ perezhilton.com
Now that the world is recovering from the initial shock of the lawsuit Michael Oher filed this week against Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, old words are being dug up that might shed light on the situation.
Oher was the subject of the 2009 movie The Blind Side. As seen in the film, after being taken in and cared for by the Touhy family during his difficult early high school days, he went on to play college football at Ole Miss, and then had a starring NFL gig for years with the Baltimore Ravens and Carolina Panthers. A true Cinderella story. Well, maybe except for the “true” part?
As we’ve been reporting, things are not nearly so sweet between Oher and the Tuohys anymore. He alleges in his newly-filed lawsuit that the family tricked him into signing away his rights as part of a conservatorship created after his 18th birthday. The football star claims the Memphis-based fam enriched themselves through his underdog tale and football success.
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And yet there may be more to this story… More than a decade ago, Oher penned I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond. That memoir was published in 2011 — two years after the movie starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw came out — and it dealt with the real-life tale of the ex-Ravens star.
At one point in the book, Oher very openly states that he knew he was “considered an adult” by the laws of the state of Tennessee when he signed paperwork to connect to the Tuohys, and they were to become his “legal conservators” in the process:
In that 2011 book, Oher went on:
Wow!
That’s big, because in this new lawsuit, Oher claims he only just found out about the conservatorship a