Former Ole Miss and NFL lineman, and the focus of The Blind Side movie, Michael Oher, is suing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, the couple of who took him in and got him started playing for the Black Bear Land Shark Hobby Lobby's. His claim is basically that the Tuohy's "tricked" him into signing a Conservatorship, thinking they were adoption papers, and subsequently profiting from the movie, and shutting him out of making any $$$ off the film.
I've read several articles and interviews since this came out, and I have to say....Bullshit!
I heard an interview with Oher about the movie, which he was not particularly pleased with. If you're like most peeps, you've seen the movie, or at least parts of it. And you know Oher was portrayed as a big, dumb oaf. Oher said you got the sense that he could barely read or write, and he was pretty much dependent on the Tuohy's. He said the reality is that he is the complete polar opposite of that, and he was reading and doing plays in his early elementary school days.
But, as far as his claims go, none of it makes sense. He actually said that he didn't realize he was still under a conservatorship and didn't make anything from the movie in February of this year. The Blind Side came out in 2009. So, it took you 14 years to realize there was a movie based mostly on YOUR life, and you didn't make a penny from it? It never came up with the agents and lawyers during the 8 years you were in the NFL?
What has been publicized, is that each of the Tuohy family was paid about $225,000.00, plus 2.5% of the movie profits. The Tuohy's say that's total BS. There's also the fact that the Tuohy's were huge in the fast food franchise bidnezz, and sold most of those franchises, which now gives them a net worth of right at $100 million. Could Mr. Oher's NFL bank account be dwindling down to GH level money?
There's so much more that doesn't add up with this story, but it will either all come out in court, or the Tuohy's take care of Michael Oher again.
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