‘Blind Side’ Tuohy family will end 19-year conservatorship for Michael Oher, attorneys say

The household who took in former NFL star Michael Oher, inspiring the Oscar-nominated movie “The Blind Aspect,” plan to finish their conservatorship — which he’s difficult in court docket, claiming they duped him out of thousands and thousands of {dollars}.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy will enter right into a consent order to finish the conservatorship, their lawyer Randall Fishman stated at a information convention Wednesday.

Oher, 37, claimed the conservatorship allowed the Memphis couple to retain authorized energy over him and that they made thousands and thousands from “The Blind Aspect” — which grossed $300 million on the field workplace — whereas didn’t get a cent.

On Monday, the previous Baltimore Ravens Tremendous Bowl winner filed a petition in a Tennessee probate court docket accusing the Tuohys of mendacity to him by having him signal papers that made them his conservators, fairly than his adoptive mother and father, virtually twenty years in the past in Could 2004.

He sought to have the conservatorship ended and requested for a full accounting of the cash earned off the usage of his identify, together with the blockbuster 2009 flick starring Sandra Bullock and the novel that impressed it.

Tuohys’ attorneys stated Oher was properly conscious he had not been adopted.

Fishman stated he talked about that the couple have been his conservators thrice in “I Beat The Odds: From Homeless, To The Blind Aspect,” Oher’s first tome in 2011.

Oher accused the couple of falsely representing themselves as his adoptive mother and father, saying he found in February that the conservatorship was not the association he believed it to be.

The Tuohys attorneys additionally stated the couple and Oher have been estranged for a couple of decade.  

With Put up wires