Michael Oher Discusses The Blind Facet After Tuohy Lawsuit
Michael Oher has opened up about how he was depicted in The Blind Facet amid his authorized battle in opposition to Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.
Michael’s life story famously impressed the 2009 film The Blind Facet, primarily based on a 2006 guide of the identical identify. It follows Michael’s journey from austerity to NFL stardom after the Tuohys — a rich white household from Tennessee — adopted him and offered him with the assets to kickstart his profession.
In August final 12 months, Michael shocked followers of the movie by submitting a lawsuit in opposition to the Tuohys, claiming that his adoption was faked and that the couple had “tricked him into signing a doc making them his conservators.”
Although the case is ongoing, a choose dominated in September 2023 that conservatorship ought to be terminated, saying they couldn’t “consider” that such an settlement had been put in place over an individual with no disabilities.
Now, Michael is talking out in regards to the lawsuit and denying accusations that he sued the Tuohys purely for monetary achieve.
For the wide-ranging interview, Michael — now 38 and dwelling in Nashville together with his spouse and 5 kids — returned to Memphis, the place he beforehand lived with the Tuohys. “Truthfully, it was nice,” he recalled that point in his life. “I had a mattress to remain on. I used to be consuming good. They bought me a truck.”
Regardless of this, Michael feels that the Tuohys duped him and resents how he was depicted as “dumb” in The Blind Facet, which got here out at the beginning of his skilled soccer profession.
After Michael filed his lawsuit final 12 months, legal professional Marty Singer denied the “outlandish” accusations on behalf of the Tuohys. He claimed that the couple continued to offer Michael together with his “equal share” of earnings, even after he allegedly sought to “threaten” them in a $15 million “shakedown effort.”
Court docket filings later recommended that Michael despatched texts to the Tuohys demanding cash and calling them “thieves.” When questioned about these messages by the Instances, Michael stated he “was simply nonetheless making an attempt to determine issues out” at the moment.
When requested why he waited earlier than going public together with his grievances in opposition to the Tuohys and submitting the lawsuit, Michael stated: “I went together with their narrative as a result of I actually needed to give attention to my NFL profession, not issues off the sector.”
