Michael Oher. Ned Dishman/Getty Photographs
Earlier than Michael Oher discovered he wasn’t truly adopted by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, he shared an in depth bond together with his supposed household.
Oher was taken in by the Tuohy household as a young person after he skilled ups and downs within the foster care system. He went on to grow to be a sports activities prodigy enjoying faculty soccer for the Tuohys’ alma mater, the College of Mississippi, and was later drafted by the Baltimore Ravens.
Oher’s uplifting story was informed within the 2009 Oscar-nominated movie The Blind Aspect which starred Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne, Tim McGraw as Sean and Quinton Aaron as Oher. Following the film’s success, Oher went on to write down his personal books and based a nonprofit together with his spouse, Tiffany Roy.
Nonetheless, in August 2023, Oher made headlines for claiming the Tuohys by no means adopted him and he was as an alternative positioned below a conservatorship.
Within the 14-page petition obtained by Us Weekly on the time, Oher alleged that the household
satisfied him to signal a doc in 2004 and “consented on the idea that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy household, in truth supplied him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.”
Oher proceeded with the lawsuit after allegedly studying in February 2023 that the conservatorship allowed the household authorized authority to make enterprise offers in his identify and claimed that he hasn’t seen any cash from The Blind Aspect’s success.
Hold scrolling to see what Oher has stated in regards to the Tuohy household over time:
The Tuohy Household. Getty
Being Requested to Be part of the Tuohy Household
“Nicely we need to know … If you wish to grow to be a part of the household,” Oher penned in his 2012 memoir, I Beat the Odds, recalling the second the Tuohys requested him if he wished to be an official member of their household. “[I] kinda thought I already was.”
Michael Oher together with his household. Matthew Sharpe/Getty Photographs
Legally Becoming a member of the Household
Oher wrote in his memoir that Leigh Anne and Sean had grow to be his guardians and had “assumed accountability” for him however the couple was making the formal resolution to make him “a authorized member of the Tuohy household.”
“Since I used to be already over the age of eighteen and thought of an grownup by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne can be named as my ‘authorized conservators,’” he wrote on the time. “They defined to me it means just about the very same factor as ‘adoptive mother and father,’ however that the legal guidelines have been simply written in a method that took my age into consideration.”
His Gratitude for the Tuohys
Oher spoke in regards to the Tuohy household in an interview with Mississippi Public Broadcasting in August 2023. The dialog was recorded previous to the information breaking of the lawsuit.
“The issues I went via and needed to do to undergo to that time I went via from 3 years outdated to 18 after I moved in with the Tuohy household — who I’m grateful for letting me keep my senior 12 months there — however it’s important to perceive … what it took for me to get to that time,” Oher stated to host Marshall Ramsey on the time.
