#leigh anne tuohy

[jodielandons]

Remember The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock? The movie showed how a kid who had an extremely rough upbringing got help from the family of a school friend, found success in football and ultimately ended up being adopted by the family. Turns out he was never adopted.

Michael Oher says that he was tricked by the Tuohy family into signing documents that made them his conservators. Since he was already 18 at the time the family told him, “that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took [his] age into account.”

Oher also says that papers were signed so that his story and likeness were given away for free to use in The Blind Side. He also never got a single royalty check for the hugely successful, Oscar nominated film in the 14 years since its release.

#the blind side #Michael oher #Leigh Anne tuohy #sean tuohy #news #conservatorship #adoption #guardianship #white savior complex #black tumblr #black news #black stories #black men

[mysharona1987]

#Espn #nfl #blm #politics #sports #micheal oher #leigh anne tuohy #sean tuohy #oscars

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Wtf???!! Michael better keep suing them!!!

#the blind side #leigh anne tuohy #Michael oher

[melaninpov]

Damn, the more I find out about Michael Oher the more I realize how fictional the movie The Blind Side was. Wow this is quite disturbing. But I guess the real story wouldn’t have been that entertaining. He wasn’t homeless, he was playing football, basketball, and running track when he met the Tuohys. And……. it was the Father that met Oher, not the son. It’s theorized that they changed that in the movie so it would look less like a recruitment. It’s starting to look exactly like that when you think about it.

They portrayed him as a dummy who needed saving. When really in-spite of his circumstances, he was doing just fine and preparing for his future. The real story of Michael Oher is just as amazing as the fictional movie. I wished they had shown the truth and I wished this family genuinely loved and supported him.

#michael oher #tuohy family #sean tuohy #leigh anne tuohy #the blindside #lawsuit #conservatorship #greed #white savior complex #white saviorism #i stand with michael oher #why take advantage of someone who’s already been through so much #melaninpov #personal rant

[relentlesslygold]

#sandra bullock #the blind side #Leigh Anne Tuohy #in a prayer group with the D.A.

[doculicious]

The Tuohys put Michael Oher under conservatorship instead of adopting him so that he could not be an heir to their estates like their bio children. End of story.

I hope Michael Oher has a great legal team to get all the money the Tuohys made off of him that doesn't even include the Hollywood movie. I never watched "The Blind Side" because I did not like the idea that this white family took this black male in because he had potential for football. If he was into science, math or the arts they wouldn't have bothered.

Outside of getting actually money off of Michael Oher, the damning part of this is that Tuohys knew everything he did because a conservator gets all the info as the main part of their job. Half his life all his personal info going to the Tuohys. Ole Miss and the NFL had to know about the conservatorship and said nothing. SMH

Adult adoption is a real legal thing in the USA for a solid 100 years. Any adult 18 and older can be legally adopted.

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[mochirialgworl]

SO ARE YOU TELLING ME THE TUOHY'S BEEN PULLING A JAMIE SPEARS ALL ALONG?????!!!!!!!

looks like we've been on the blind side this whole time....

#not surprised but still disappointed #michael oher #the blind side #conservatorship #white savior #sandra bullock lied to me #jamie spears #hell naw #damn #leigh anne tuohy #sean tuohy

[cinemedios]

Sean y Leigh Anne Tuohy responden a las acusaciones de Michael Oher

Sean y Leigh Anne niegan no haber compartido las ganancias de 'The Blind Side' con Michael Oher.

Hace un par de días, el ex-jugador de football americano Michael Oher demandó a Sean y Leigh Anne Tuohy por haberle hecho creer que había sido adoptado por ellos, pero en realidad únicamente firmaron una tutela con la que tuvieron el poder de lucrar con su historia, en particular con la película The Blind Side y no compartir nada de las ganancias. Por ahora solo conocíamos la versión de Oher y en…

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#Leigh Anne Tuohy #Michael Oher #Sean Tuohy #The Blind Side

[insufferable-yapper]

Leigh-Anne Tuohy in the Christmas scene: and I said, “it’s not like I’m going to put it on the Christmas card” yk like a liar

#the blind side #Leigh Anne Tuohy

[gwydionmisha]

I avoided that movie because it reeked of white savior complex. The fact that it was all a fraud to steal from Mr. Oher, is unfortuneately not a huge surprise.

#Michael Oher #Conservatorship #Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy #‘The Blind Side #News

[thescoopess]

Michael Oher the Subject of the Movie 'The Blind Side' Sues the Tuohy Family Claiming they Never Adopted Him

Michael Oher, the subject of the blockbuster film “The Blind Side,” is suing Sean and Leigh Ann Touhy, claiming they never actually adopted him, and he never made a dime off the movie. The movie was released in 2009. In the court filing, Oher states that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy presented him with a petition for a conservatorship, which granted them “total control over [his] ability to…

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#leigh ann tuohy #michael oher #nfl player michael oher #sean tuohy #the blind side movie

[mysharona1987]

Re: The Blind Side. I would avoid demanding an apology from Sandra Bullock right now or say she give up the Oscar. She’s just buried her long-time partner and there’s no indication she knew the real story about Micheal Oher.

Should she have starred in a “white saviour” film? Well, no. And she should talk about that in the future.

But taking it out on her instead of Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband, the people that committed these heinous actions, seems rather unfair.

#leigh anne tuohy #Micheal oher #Oscars #Books #nfl #sandra bullock #politics #football

[hashtagloveloses]

The headline is pretty awful but this is one of those things that gets worse as you read it:

The 14-page petition, filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, who took Oher into their home as a high school student, never adopted him. Instead, less than three months after Oher turned 18 in 2004, the petition says, the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.

"Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys."

Oher was a rising high school senior when he signed the conservatorship papers, and he has written that the Tuohys told him that there was essentially no difference between adoption and conservatorship. "They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account," Oher wrote in his 2011 best-selling memoir "I Beat the Odds."

But there are some important legal distinctions. If Oher had been adopted by the Tuohys, he would have been a legal member of their family, and he would have retained power to handle his own financial affairs. Under the conservatorship, Oher surrendered that authority to the Tuohys, even though he was a legal adult with no known physical or psychological disabilities.

While the [movie] deal allowed the Tuohys to profit from the film, the petition alleges, a separate 2007 contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to "give away" to 20th Century Fox Studios the life rights to his story "without any payment whatsoever." The filing says Oher has no recollection of signing that contract, and even if he did, no one explained its implications to him.

The [movie] deal lists all four Tuohy family members as having the same representative at Creative Artists Agency, the petition says. But Oher's agent, who would receive movie contract and payment notices, is listed as Debra Branan, a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the 2004 conservatorship petition, the petition alleges. Branan did not return a call to her law office on Monday.

"Mike's relationship with the Tuohy family started to decline when he discovered that he was portrayed in the movie as unintelligent," Stranch said. "Their relationship continued to deteriorate as he learned that he was the only member of the family not receiving royalty checks from the movie, and it was permanently fractured when he realized he wasn't adopted and a part of the family."

For years, Oher has chafed at how "The Blind Side" depicted him, saying it hurt his football career and clouded how people view him. He has said that based on the film, some NFL decision-makers assumed he was mentally slow or lacked leadership skills.

"People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie," Oher told ESPN in 2015. "They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am."

"Beyond the details of the deal, the politics, and the money behind the book and movie, it was the principle of the choices some people made that cut me the deepest."

#original post #the blind side #michael oher #this is one of the worst things i’ve ever read #this movie always was awful but somehow it got worse

[melaninpov]

I’m livid. They should be ashamed of themselves but I doubt they are. This is NOT a good look. I’m not usually the person who says “that makes us look bad” because I believe no one’s actions represent me or my character. But this needs to be said. This is exactly why melanated people feel the way they do when non-melanated people adopt and/or use melanated children for social media content. This is why it is frowned upon. I get that not everyone has ill intentions but those who do make it extremely hard. I’ve been researching this since I first heard and it is sick. Not only did they lie and got him under their conservatorship, they didn’t do what they were suppose to do under that said conservatorship. Smfh. I stand with Michael Oher! Release him! He is more than capable of making him own decisions and spending his own money. Make them give him ALL of his money. Every. Single. Damn. Dime.

#michael oher #the blind side #sean tuohy #leigh anne tuohy #tuohy family #white savior complex #white saviorism #manipulation #greed #self interest #they were dead wrong #leave sandra bullock alone #nfl #espn #bipoc #release him #conservatorship

[frankendykes-monster]

Former NFL star Michael Oher, subject of the book and movie "The Blind Side," alleges that the couple who took him in as a teenager misled him into believing they were adopting him — and instead placed him in a conservatorship, according to a court filing Monday. "The lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher," the petition to terminate the conservatorship in Shelby County Court in Tennessee said. The story of Oher and the Tuohy family became the subject of an Oscar-winning film, “The Blind Side,” starring actor Sandra Bullock in the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy. The film, based on the Michael Lewis book of the same name, chronicled Oher’s life as a homeless child through his college football career and eventual NFL stardom.

The Tuohys negotiated a deal with 20th Century Fox that left Oher without any payment for the rights to his name, likeness and life story while the Tuohy family received a contract price of $225,000 in addition to 2.5% of the film’s net proceeds, the petition states. The film has grossed over $300 million, the petition says. A $200,000 donation was also made to Leigh Anne Tuohy's charitable foundation. Oher made no money off the film, the petition said, which was released after he completed his college career and would not have impacted his NCAA eligibility. According to the petition, Oher does not recall signing the agreement for the rights to his life story. The document has a signature that appears to be his, but "nobody ever presented this document to him with any explanation."

His petition accuses the Tuohys of a breach of their fiduciary duty as conservators “so gross and appalling that they should by sanctioned by this court." Oher was a ward of the state of Tennessee by the age of 11 and was homeless as a child, according to the filing. A friend's father helped Oher enroll in Briarcrest Christian School in 2002, where Oher played both basketball and football. The families of classmates often let Oher, who fell through the cracks of a "broken social system," stay in their homes during his time, the petition said. "Where other parents of Michael's classmates saw Michael simply as a nice kid in need, Conservators Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy saw something else: A gullible young man whose athletic talent could be exploited for their own benefit," the petition said.

[gmzriver]

Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in “The Blind Side” icons.

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