Sean Tuohy’s ‘Below Deck’ Comments About Negotiating ‘Blind Side’ Deal Resurface Amid Michael Oher Lawsuit
17.08.2023 - 15:21
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In light of the recent legal drama between Michael Oher and the Tuohy family, a 2017 episode of Below Deck featuring Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy in which Sean claims he required script approval for the film The Blind Side has resurfaced on TikTok.
In the clip from user @itsabigailadams, patriarch Sean is discussing how the team behind The Blind Side movie gained the rights to use the Tuohy family’s name.
“The writer of the book, he and I went to school together since we were five years old,” Sean says, referencing writing Michael Lewis, who penned the book that the movie was adapted from. “So I get a call — Steven Spielberg, Harvey Weinstein — I had to give them the rights to use our name, and I said, ‘I’ll give you the rights if I get to read the script and approve it or un-approve it.’ So, sure enough, seven months later we get an envelope in the mail.”
The season 5 episode of the Bravo show is titled “Blindsided,” and features both Sean and Leigh Anne on board the yacht. In the episode description, Leigh Anne and her friends are described as “a challenge” for the Below Deck crew.
The footage has resurfaced in light of Oher’s lawsuit against the Tuohys, claiming the family tricked him into signing paperwork that made them his conservators shortly after he turned 18 in 2004. In the petition, which was filed on Monday in Tennessee, Oher claims that at the time he thought the papers were a part of the adoption process, but that in reality they gave the Tuohy’s legal authority to make business deals in his name.
Oher has since requested to terminate the conservatorship, a request the Tuohy family lawyer claims the family plans to approve.
In an interview with the Daily Memphian, Sean said the family is “devastated” by