Blind Side Author Defends Tuohys From Accusation They Hid Profits

The inspirational and supposedly true story chronicled within the film The Blind Side took a shocking and really unhappy flip within the final week, when the movie’s real-life topic, Michael Oher, filed to finish his authorized relationship along with his “adopted” dad and mom, the Tuohys. According to writer Michael Lewis’ guide The Blind Side — which then grew to become the idea for the film of the identical identify starring Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy — Oher was a troubled child raised within the foster system, who was supported and even adopted by the Tuohy household, who gave him a spot to reside and helped him discover success on the soccer discipline.

Oher ultimately went to varsity, after which had an extended profession enjoying the NFL. But he now claims that the Tuohys deceived him once they claimed they adopted him. He alleges they as an alternative getting into right into a “conservatorship” which he claims gave them management over his funds — and thus his income from The Blind Side. In courtroom, Oher is now attempting to finish that conservatorship, and demanding that the Tuohys hand over any cash from the The Blind Side that they didn’t share.

But in a brand new interview within the Washington Post, The Blind Side writer Michael Lewis sides with the Tuohys, and says that Oher “should be mad at the Hollywood studio system” as an alternative of the household.

“It’s outrageous how Hollywood accounting works, but the money is not in the Tuohys’ pockets,” Lewis stated.

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In the Post article, Lewis lays out all the cash he says he and the Tuoys obtained for the rights to The Blind Side…

Lewis stated that in the end after agent charges and taxes, he and the Tuohy household obtained round $350,000 every from the income of the film. Lewis stated the Tuohys deliberate to share the royalties among the many relations, together with Oher, however Oher started declining his royalty checks, Lewis stated. Lewis stated he believed the Tuohy household had deposited Oher’s share in a belief fund for Oher’s son.

Lewis additionally claimed he has been so suspicious about how little cash he personally made off The Blind Side, regardless of its worldwide grosses of over $300 million in theaters, that “he had called his own representatives at Creative Artists Agency over the years, following the movie’s success, asking about his share of the profits.”

He additionally famous that from his perspective as a author observing and chronicling the household’s therapy of Oher, he believed the Tuohys “showered him with resources and love” and that Oher is now “suspicious of them is breathtaking. The state of mind one has to be in to do that — I feel sad for him.”

Here had been the Tuohys’ legal professionals’ response to Oher’s accusations, wherein they declare the household has no points in any respect ending the conservatorship.