Former NFL offensive tackle Michael Oher, whose story of adoption by a wealthy white family was portrayed in the 2009 movie The Blind Side, said that the Tuohy family never actually adopted him but faked that fact to make money off his name, according to ESPN.
Oher filed a 14-page petition Monday in a Shelby County, Tenn., court that said Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy coerced Oher to sign a document so they could become his conservators shortly after he turned 18 in 2003. Although the Tuohys have long referred to Oher as their adopted son, Oher says that it not the case.
The Tuohy family took in Oher as a 17-year-old high school student, letting him live in their house and providing him with clothes and food. They continued supporting him in his college playing career at Ole Miss, and then in the NFL when he was selected in the first round of the 2009 draft by the Ravens.
