The family of Michael Oher, the retired NFL star whose adoption out of poverty was the inspiration behind the 2009 film “The Blind Side,” has fired back at Oher’s claims they swindled him in more than one way.
Both Sean “SJ” Tuohy Jr. and his father, Sean Tuohy, have spoken out publicly since Oher, 37, on Monday filed a lawsuit in Shelby County, Tennessee court, which said he only recently learned Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy didn’t officially adopt him and that he was instead duped into a conservatorship, which allowed the family to take in millions of dollars in royalties from the movie about his life.
