Michael Oher Says Tuohy Family Never Adopted Him & Denied Him Money – Hollywood Life

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Michael Oher filed a authorized petition towards Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy claiming that they hadn’t adopted him and stored him from getting cash on Monday, Aug 14, per ESPN. The former NFL participant, 37, mentioned that moderately than adopting him, the household satisfied him to signal paperwork placing him in a conservatorship. Michael’s story had served because the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side. In the submitting, he claimed that the Tuohy household lied in regards to the adoption parts of the story.

The petition asks for the conservatorship to finish and that the Tuohys won’t be able to make use of Michael’s identify and likeness. He’s additionally in search of cash that the household earned him from utilizing his identify and story, in addition to different compensatory and punitive damages. “Since at least August of 2004, Conservators have allowed Michael, specifically, and the public, generally, to believe that Conservators adopted Michael and have used that untruth to gain financial advantages for themselves and the foundations which they own or which they exercise control,” the submitting says.

The petition claims that the Tuohys had advised Michael that they might legally undertake him after he turned 18 in 2004. He alleged that the household advised him that since he was over the age of 18, the adoption could be referred to as a conservatorship, in line with NBC News. “At no point did the Tuohys inform Michael that they would have ultimate control of all his contracts, and as a result Michael did not understand that if the Conservatorship was granted, he was signing away his right to contract for himself,” the submitting says.

The conservatorship was purported to be dissolved when Michael turned 25, nevertheless it was not. The former NFL participant didn’t study this till earlier this 12 months. “Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned 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 submitting says.