Former NFL and Ole Miss star Michael Oher, whose life story was the subject of the Oscar award-winning movie “The Blind Side,” is now saying he was never adopted by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.

The former offensive lineman filed a 14-page petition, filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, which states he wasn’t adopted. In fact, less than three months after Oher turned 18 in 2004, the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, per an ESPN report.

The petition alleges the Tuohys used their conservators status to make deals that made the Tuohys – and their birth children – millions in royalties from the movie. Oher, on the other hand, got nothing that he says “would not have existed without him.”

“The lie of Michael’s adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher,” the legal filing states, per ESPN. “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.”

Oher wants the court to release him from the conservatorship and to issue an injunction barring the Tuohys from using his name and likeness. The petition asks for an accounting of the money the Tuohys earned as a result and looks for restitution as well as compensatory and punitive damages.

Per ESPN, if Oher had been adopted by the Tuohys, he would retained power to handle his financial affairs. Under the conservatorship, Oher surrendered that authority to the Tuohys, even though he was a legal adult.

The Tuohys, per the petition, negotiated the movie deal after the 2006 release of the book “Blind Side: Evolution of the Game.” The movie paid the Tuohys and their two birth children each $225,000, plus 2.5 percent of the film’s “defined net proceeds.”

The movie grossed more than $300 million at the box office, and millions more in home video sales.

Oher’s attorney, J. Gerard Stranch IV, said Oher never received money from the movie, even though he long suspected that others were profiting.

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