The Blind Side: Tuohy Family Lawyer Explains Michael Oher's Conservatorship
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- Leah Anne and Sean Tuohy’s Lawyer, Steven Farese, speaks with ET's Nischelle Turner about Michael Oher's claims. He explains the reason behind the long-standing conservatorship, and responds to Oher's comments of not receiving proper compensation for the film based on his life, 'The Blind Side.'
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Its called “acting” for a reason. She deserved her Oscar. Period. And I think Sandra is going through enough right now. Lets leave her out of this mess.
Yeah! Sandra Bullock playing the mom in the blind side is one thing but people thinking that she’s a part of this whole drama is something else.
That’s what you have to add? Smdh my people
@@diamondabneypeople are mad and venting. Why give so much attention to that? I don’t get it. If it’s so ridiculous then why keep commenting on that and not what these people did.
@@kaioiamo1503 The actress had nothing with the drama tho. You don’t need to get an attitude with me just because I said something. People like you need to stop getting worked up angrily about every small damn thing!
While I agree Sandra Bullock is not the source of the problem, I think the decent thing to do, provided that the circumstances are as they appear, is to return the Oscar (voluntarily, in solidarity). Quite frankly it was undeserved in the first place. The Blind Side is a terrible film and it's no surprise this is the result.
I have read the conservatorship document and it clearly states that he cannot even make medical decisions on his own. Perhaps it wasn't enforced, but it was very clear in the document what rights he lost to the Tuohys. And TN allows adult adoption, so this whole thing makes zero sense. I find it strange that they would have him sign a document that clearly took away his rights as an adult person to sign legal contracts.
When Michael got married in November the wife stepped in and said, I'm the Power of Attorney. We're going to court.
That's because adoption took too long and they needed the coservatorship to get him into the college of his chose and satisfy the NCAA..
Medical decisions so far:
Physicals while in NFL, treating football injuries, post retirement therapeutic weed 😅
@@thepamela050 That is what they claim, but their explanation is very thin. Oher was very popular and had several colleges offering him scholarships. It is very strange to have a person with no physical or psychological disabilities sign a conservatorship. It gave them power of attorney, power to contract, and power over his medical decisions. They also waived the appointment of a guardian ad litem, a neutral party who could have explained to Micheal exactly what he was signing and what it meant. Why they would have him sign away rights any adult over 18 had in order for him to get into Ole Miss is beyond my understanding. It doesn't make sense. Their lawyer was also a family friend. It is just extremely suspicious. If so many colleges wanted Oher, I find it hard to believe that Ole Miss would have passed on signing him because he didn't have a conservatorship. No way. That explanation does not hold. I am extremely surprised a judge actually approved this, and I am curious to see what comes out about this case.
The conservatorship was for his football scholarship to Ole Miss. If there was anything nefarious, it would have been an issue with his NFL contracts. It wasn’t. Adopting Michael at 18 after providing a home for him for only 2 years would have been crazy. Treating him like a son is different than making him a son. Michael was never happy with his portrayal in the movie, which I don’t blame him. The movie was highly successful, but Michael and the Tuohys were part of a book that was an idea for the movie. $300 million gross is a lot like Michael earned $35 million in his NFL career. The net is significantly less than the gross. Seems like Michael spent much of his NFL money and thinks there is a Blind Side pot o’ gold he missed out of that probably doesn’t exist. I saw the movie. I said then that I wouldn’t have taken the kid in. Now, the feeling is double. Don’t get involved.
There is absolutely no reason that conservatorship should still be in place with him being 37 years old. I do not believe this lawyers statement of “they didn’t think about it”. Also, he wouldn’t be the first person to sign a legal agreement without his own lawyer present and unfortunately he won’t be the last. It’s a sad situation all the way around.
@@mwenengoferohe’s a vulnerable 18 yr old boy who has a family telling him conservator is like adoption and it’s just a word they use for over 18. That’s what is written in his 2011 book that the lawyers are manipulating the public by only sharing a small excerpt. His mom is a crackhead who never graduated with 12 kids - do you think she understood and doubted a powerful white family giving her son a safe home. It’s not a race thing just describing her perspective. Having the mom their actually makes the adoption story look more believable. Normally in a conservatorship case, a judge will appoint a state attorney to review and explain to the ward (Oher in this case) what conservatorship means and the rights they’re losing BUT their judge waived the right to appointing/ having separate counsel explain but instead rendered his approval judgment right on the spot. That’s shocking and not the standard when the ward does NOT have their own lawyer. In this case, they had ONE lawyer that happens to be a very close family friend and is on the board of the Tuophy foundation, representing all 3 parties - MASSIVE conflict of interest and bias.
I think we gotta remember “based on a true story” always means there are going to be some dramatic elements added to the story..if the story was told exactly the way it went..it’d be a documentary.
There are so many interviews they did 13 years ago saying they adopted him. Right on abcnews youtube channel. Everything you do stays on here.
And yet Oher said in his book it was a conservatorship. Do we really think a man in his late 30's just found this out? He most likely is another broke NFL retiree.
The Blind Side 2: $15 million Blackmail😂 hope Oher goes to jail
Why don't you post some quotes then and cite the sources? Shouldn't be too hard for everyone to see since there are "so many interviews" with the family.
@counterculture10 glad you asked th-cam.com/video/eZp9Nv1k2JI/w-d-xo.html
@@counterculture10 news and interview comparing to 'This is us' th-cam.com/video/Is3UEJWlAkc/w-d-xo.html
Who cares he wants out. So allow it... PERIODT ‼️
Now they want to talk about it. Through an attorney. Lol
Why didn't one of your family's take him in
Amen
@@TrustJesus333 you would know. I’m sure you studied the evil that was on the slave ship Jesus
@@jennya1778 he never needed them. Just like we don’t need you. Take your white supremacy to your kind. Even the sun rejects you for a reason.
The tuohy s have changed their story 4 times. Firstly they got nothing ,then they had 14 grand . Then SJ said he had 60 grand . Then lawyer said they got 100 grand. Keep your story straight and people might believe you. Plus they were loaded, the story was about him why did they take any money. Also their friend wrote the book
Exactly, “they were loaded” is the key phrase. They didn’t need his money so this is just a cash grab to distract us from the reality of what is going on in the country. Not this petty bullshit.
They keep lying and changing their story all the time
@@mwenengofero Why do they keep lying about amounts paid? Why can't they stick to one story when it comes to the money? Oh wait 🐸
In their defense my friend and I had a movie optioned around the same time this came out and when we saw how much money we we're going to make we both refer to it as nothing also in comparison to what the studio could make. You think you hit the jackpot but in reality it's not much after taxes, lawyers, agents and management fees.
I think the lawyer said in one interview that they got 700 grand total. There’s always an option put on it that you get money for, and then you get royalties.
Lawyer is a liar. Here is what the book ACTUALLY says....
“It kind of felt like a formality, as I'd been a part of the family for more than a year at that point. Since I was already over the age of eighteen and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my 'legal conservators.' 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. Honestly, I didn't care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren't legally what we already knew was real: We were a family.”
They lied to him and pretended the conservatorship was adoption....in all 50 states you can adopt adults. They couldve just adopted him but they didnt. There is NO REASON to place someone in a conservatorship unless you want to control their lives and decision-making process.
So that line from Michael Oher's book that you quoted, did you catch the important part? _"...as I'd been _*_a part of the family for more than a year_*_ at that point..."_
Later in that same paragraph he says:
_"My mother was supportive of the whole thing and there wasn’t a whole lot of emotion all around because it was just a matter of formalizing the way _*_we’d all been living for the past year._*_ "_
His conservatorship was filed on August 9, 2004. (the summer before his senior year). So back in 2011 he writes *twice* on the same page that he had been part of the Tuohy's family for a year when this all went down. Here we are 12 years later, and he constantly LIES and says that he just "moved in" in July that summer... a month before he signed the conservatorship. So which is it? And it's also interesting that he considered them his family BEFORE they went to court. He didn't NEED a piece of paper back then.... it was a "formality". Now he's all hurt that it wasn't the piece of paper he thought it was.
When they did they first interview when the movie came about they stated that he were adopted
Yeah they tryna hide money now they busted
"i thought he was adopted"- interviewer
"oh you didnt watch the movie or read his book?" -lawyer
lol
He may have know it was a conservatorship (the word) but he didnt know that they had they ability to control his life!
@@TrustJesus333i mean considering your username is TrustJesus Id say you are living proof of that
If they had the ability and he didn’t know it until now ... they likely weren’t controlling his life. It sounds like he is running out of his NFL money and trying to turn a buck.
The Blind Side 2: $15 million Blackmail😂 hope Oher goes to jail
Whether Michael Orr is lying or not is one thing. But why was is he still under a conservatorship by the Touhy’s now? It’s at the very least unorthodox. The Tuohy’s and Michael should have terminated that professional relationship the minute Michael started in the NFL or perhaps after the movie? I think both sides aren’t being truthful. Even if the Tuohy’s are rich and didn’t take any large sums of moneys from Michael there is something off here. And I think the same can be said of Michael.
@oddjobbob8742 well you are clearly not a pro-Ohr fan. 😂😂Having said that I do agree with you. He should have terminated things at 25. Odd that he didn’t. He was either too trusting, too lazy or was advised incorrectly. I doubt he is stupid. On the other hand, why did the Tuohy’s keep the conservatorship? Are they greedy? Lazy or advised incorrectly. Their actions leave something to be desired based on what they had their lawyers communicate. The answer is $$$. Neither party sounds like they are desperate for cash, but I bet at least one side still wants more. It’s clear they should go to court.
I feel he barely found out about the conservatership because of his wife. He got married in 2022. He didn’t invite the Tuhoys cuz he was mad at them for not giving him 8 million he felt he was entitled to after they sold the 200 million Taco Bell franchise. His wife is older and already had to fully grown kids. She stated a strange explanation about how she loves because he always does what she wants in their wedding interview. I didn’t think that sounded romantic then. Micheal was mad he was portrayed slow but I think he actually is the tuhoys didn’t take anything from him it’s why it took so long for anyone to notice I think they did do it for his benefit to keep anyone else from taking advantage they just didn’t think his wife was probably a secret weasel that was going to be in his ear down the road.
Those are his kids. The wife he married has been his girlfriend all these years. They have been together since college and had those kids together. They just never got married until recently
100%. you are the only one to see this clearly. the family offered Michael a home, love and cares. they didnt offer him the family fortune, but they helped him in every way for him to succeed. to me thats already extremely generous. They never ask for any of his $34 million career earning.
Now everyone is up in arm, "Tuboy's stole some thousands of Michael's movie money". the family worth $200+ million, why would they care for little movie money🙄"Tuohys only took him in to use him" how would Touboy know about the movie as they took him in?
this made me wish Tuboys should have left Michael on the street to rot from the start. i cant imagine to be this ungrateful. 😮💨
Ewww I can’t not believe some of the humans I have to share this earth with!!!
@@tashabuckmire2122 Two of the four are his kids but she already had a son and daughter from another relationship when she met Micheal.
@@melaniemelanin ok 2 of the kids are his. I’m just saying I don’t know why people are starting to blame the wife. They may have not been married but they have been together for years. This is his doing. Is she going along with. It would seem so. But let that man take his blame.
Sadly, Oher appears to have been influenced by negative voices ... and it's turned him from seeing the good that was done on his behalf by the Tuohy family. .
He states that the family presented it to him as being “ adopted”.
All you idiots siding with the lying ex football player crack me up! Did you even listen to the interview??? HE STATES IN HIS BOOK HE KNEW IT WAS A CONSERVATORSHIP! Dude went broke and now he's trying to get the easy money, Plain and simple.
Allegedly the only deal his birth mother would approve and she allegedly was a part of this.
@oddjobbob8742 You mean the book conveniently written by the Tuohy's good friend? Yes, very trustworthy and unbiased resource indeed
The reference back to slavery is really uncalled for. We don’t know the story. That’s the problem with social media. We read what we want to. It’s statements that any proof. I’m just browsing around while I’m watching a television show but if I want the facts I got a better sources and I certainly don’t come in on what I do not know about.
@@dfogarty1897 I don't think the reference is uncalled for. Conservatorships in general are a big business that preys on the vulnerable-- it's nasty nasty work and should be outlawed. Also, the legal papers are out there. You can read it and see for yourself. There's detailed reporting on what has come out, what is being alleged, and what the facts are so far. So no, I am not coming in on this based on nothing. However, I am ready to see what comes out in the legal proceedings (which, by the way, are not even about money. Oher is literally suing so he can be released from the conservatorship. A grown man like him does not need-- and never needed-- these people having any kind of power or ownership over any aspect of his life)
The Tuohys have already admitted that they are Oher's conservators and not legal parents/guardians. Hope the process of relieving them of that post is quick, and I really hope how this all happened is looked in to-- from the judge to the lawyers to the friend who wrote the book to the Tuohys themselves. Whole thing stinks to high heaven
No good deed goes unpunished.
What's the good deed?
@@ellenL400 Exactly!!!! some can't see the good deed or they feel entitled to the generosity of others. Therefore, it is impossible for them to appreciate it.... resulting in them cursing your existence when you stop helping them (because they fee entitled to the help at that point).
@@steve6631 🙄
It is going to be so interesting to learn whether Oher really has blown all his NFL money. Mike Tyson blew all his boxing money.
Why do they not stop going to the media and let the documents, history, forensics speak for themselves in a court of law. There are several discoveries Michael is seeking and much is also already found. This appears to be a narcissistic group move on a chosen scapegoat who was never the character they depicted. Peace to the World.
That's because it was a story and not a documentary..This is all going to play out and I think Mr. Oher is going to get embarrassed when it's done..A family he should have talk to privately will now it will not be fixable..
Lies again? UEFA SW MLS NFL TUSHY
Why doesn’t Michael stop going to the media? he started it
This is typical BP behavior. This is why whtttes needs to stop helping them. This family should have left him on the side of road.
The Tuohys were alumnus of University of Mississippi. They were helping Michael get into that school. Oher agreed to sign the conservatorship so that he can go to that school. He even wrote about this in his 2011 book , "I Beat the Odds". They also never took any of his NFL money. Also they made very little off that movie because they neither produced or wrote it. They split their royalties equally with Michael.
1. He didn't need to sign away his rights to the family to get into Ole Miss.
2. Why the heck where they lying to us this whole time implying that they adopted him? And why should we believe a word they say now.
I so agree with you Gigis ! This dude is out for nothing but green!! And or attention...waiting for that crooked ass lawyer to come running to his " defense"!
@@mwenengofero How do you know that didn't happen?
They should have ended the conservatorship a decade ago. They never needed a conservatorship. He was 18. Why did they do it?
Alcon Entertainment, an affiliate of Fox entertainment donated $200K in 2010 to the Tuohys foundation. How many others may have donated because of the lie they adopted Michael? Until recently it did state "adopted son" on the website for their "charity" The Making It Happen Foundation"
Why was he under a conservatorship while he was in the NFL?!These people are the devil!!!!!
This too. The NFL had to know because this family would have had to sign every legal document for him, even as an adult. This is not okay. Conservatorships are meant for the incapacitated! So yes, like Britney; he was working for money that the check went to his conservators. This is known as human trafficking. Why didn't they just adopt him if it was all an act of love. This is infuriating.
Have you met him? If you had you would understand
@@dfogarty1897 anything to belittle. He’s a human being and if you know anything about conservatorship you know the kind of thieves that do that. What in the white savior are you people on?
@@TrustJesus333 it’s not a lie what’s lie is your sense of entitlement. Your erroneous belief that even a poor child doesn’t belong with their family that somehow some great white hope saved him. He saved himself and these monsters used him. He didnt need them they needed him. Clearly.
@@TrustJesus333 you are vile being who wouldn’t have the guts to say this in person. Typical.
EXACTLY! NO REASON. He is a GROWN 37-year-old man. Everyone went crazy over Brittany and she had mental and emotional issues. Over and over and over again and again, money makes people do things they never thought they would do. And Oher is worth at least $16mil why would he want from the family. That he would have to get lawyers to get it done is shameful. This is a lawyer. What else is he going to say - "no one thought about it."
Why adopt an adult? Even if it was legal why do it? If the love from a family relationship is what you wanted why care if it is made legal or not? If your object is inheritance then that piece of paper needs to be an adoption decree. At 32 years old the only reason you would need it to be an adoption is to get your share of an inheritance. They aren’t dead yet he asked for a share of the money from the sale of their franchises. That is questionable.
I don't believe anyone can determine if the family is guilty of any wrongdoing at this point, but their are obvious questions that need answers on both sides. That said, sadly for Oher, his claims are not adding up. In fact most of the facts that have come to light thus far are not helping the case he is trying to make instead it is harming it.
The NFL allowed this? His agent allowed this? NO ONE ever came out and said these people didn’t adopt him. He was under their control. Good he threatened them. 19 years? Just awful snakes.
He was loved and no good deed goes unpunished. He has tried to shake them down for money before. Stop being ignorant. They never needing his “money” but he needs theirs. Grow up
Adoption is a personal matter.
@@siewheilou399 is that why there was a book and movie about it. Is that why they lied and said they adopted him? Why not keep it personal. GTFOWTBS
@@Shadowfax0113stop it get some help
@@Shadowfax0113 he wasn’t loved. He was a pawn. They didn’t adopt him because they would have no rights to him. Stop being ignorant. Grow up and stop thinking black people are your tokens to parade. Just disgusting. Leave me alone you vile being.
It is true that Oher states in his book that he knew and was told this was a conservatorship - but he was also told that it was "pretty much like" or even equivalent to an adoption. (There may also have been word that they had to go this path because legally adopting an adult was not possible under the law of Tennessee - which is a big fat lie because adult adoptions are possible under the law of that state.) He believed them because he trusted them at the time. Plus there was no reason for him to be placed under a conservatorship because there was no mental impairment or legal incapacity. He practically signed away his legal capacity to do certain things and he probably did feel deceived when he discovered that he had never been adopted or in an equivalent relationship with this family.
It is also true that, as many people say, this family helped him, they practically dragged him out of the gutter and they made sur he had opportunities he would otherwise not have had. But one wonders whether they had given him any of this if he had not had this sports talent, so he might be disappointed because he feels they did not really take him in for himself. And they certainly did derive a benefit from positing as his adoptive parents or making people believe that they adopted him because it gave them a certain prestige within their community. I do not think he is accusing them of having taken any of his football earnings; he mainly talks about the film and that they derived a benefit from it portraying them in a certain way.
The Tuohy family can not settle, the truth need to come out.
For a white family to take in a black child is something, especially down south. I give them a lot of credit. He just went BROKE!!! Withdraw the lawsuit and stop being a LOSER. They took your homeless @$$ in when you had NO place to go.
It has been going on for 10 in years❓❓❓❓ WTF‼️‼️ why didn’t they just go ahead and dissolve the conservative ship when Michael wanted out of it ❓❓❓❓❓‼️‼️‼️‼️😡😡😡😡 so wrong for that family to do that to him and then say well if he wants out, we will let him out! SMH 🤦🏻♀️
He wouldn't be where he is today without that family.
I really don't believe that when they took him in from his crackhead mother, that they thought "wow! They'll make a movie about this and he'll go into the NFL and make us millionaires!". All I see is an ungrateful, disrespectful man who spent all his money and now wants more. They probably wish that they left him on the streets.
They didnt take him in off the streets, he was staying with other people. And he probably wishes they would have let him be too since he was already an All-American with major scholarship offers. They did nothing to improve his football career. Also, could i get the source where hes blown all his money?
@@coryrichardson403 it's becoming quite humourous that now, everyone is saying that he was living a wonderful life, numerous college scholarships and offers, being scouted by the NFL, a straight A student, financially independent, that he was perfectly fine on his own until the evil white racist people saw dollar signs and stole that all away from him. If he would have had an ounce of integrity, he would have said something about it, but nope, he enjoyed the lifestyle that they offered him. Did he pay them back for all the money they spent on him? Food, clothing, a place to stay? Nope. He took it and now he wants more. Ungrateful to say the least.
Some of you all are really showing your disdain for black people. I don’t think them taking him in justifies any and everything under the sun. There was no need for a conservatorship.
Well the wife started writing the book immediately. It came out about a year after he left. So she must have been working on it while he was living with them.
He had to sign, that’s the only way he could’ve went to Ole Miss. He was too old to be adopted. He couldn’t get money from the movie because he was in college when it came out. He would not have been able to make money off of his likeness in college that was against the rules back then. Also, they are so loaded they don’t need that chump change..
All the bs aside they lied to everyone and Michael about the adoption. Instead of adopting him they created this conservatorship. They could have just adopted him and accomplished everything the conservatorship did. There wasn’t even the required third party present to make sure the rights of Michael weren’t being abused. There’s no law saying you can’t adopt an 18 year old. How is it it was his story yet he didn’t get anything from the movie? This doesn’t look good for the family. So sad for Michael.
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this is the TUOHY family lawyer...this is not the truth. Read the legal documents processed through the court.@@TigerHighaf
Plus by not adopting Michael Oher, he is also disinherited from the toughy estate.
He made millions in the NFL and didn't give a penny to the family that put out thousands to support him through school.
They never needed or wanted any of his money as repayment. I'm sure a little gratitude would be welcome, but that'll never happen with this POS.
I don’t buy it! I truly think he was mislead by the Touhy parents and why would the Touhy family earn any money from this man story? The way this lawyer answered questions was deflective of the Touhy family. Shame on them!
So much is suspicious. Michael being represented in the conservatorship by a close family friend who was a lawyer PLUS the fact the Tuohys waived the right to a guardian ad litem… would’ve been a neutral person who’d explain to Michael what all of it meant and what he was doing by signing it.
The fact they NEVER ENDED the conservatorship, which they had claimed was necessary because of the NCAA coming down on them for being Ole Miss boosters.
I'd say shame on Oher. He is lying about just finding out it was a conservatorship since he wrote about it in his book in 2011.
From his book, “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. Honestly, I didn’t care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren’t legally what we already knew was real: We were a family.”
@@joeellis1343 you are reprensibkr and lack a conscience. This white savior complex is outrageous. He saved himself. Not those people. He went to school. He played football. Some of these comments speak to so much about the psychology of some people.
@@joeellis1343 Your quote literally disproves that he knew what a conservatorship was and shows that the Tuohy family tricked him.
@@Cagebreaker it literally shows he knew it wasn't an adoption (contention 1) and that he knew then and in 2011 when he wrote the book that there was no malicious intent by the family (contention 2).
Yep. Here is their lawyer spelling it out on Day 1. The Tuohys picked the *Conservatorship of Person* with Michael Oher. If they were EVER after his (future) money, then why did they pick the one where they have NO CONTROL over his finances? Michael Oher's lawyers know this. They WROTE IT right there in his August petition :
_"On December 7, 2004, the Honorable Judge Robert Benham granted the petition, entering the Order Appointing _*_Conservators of the Person_*_ , making the determination that Michael was in need of supervision, protection, and assistance and that he should not be able to make contract decisions on his own."_
The fact that all the so-called "news" media and their guest legal experts continued on for months with this false narrative about them "controlling his finances", "signing contracts in his name" and comparing it to Britney Spears is ludicrous. It says a lot about today's media and their biased propaganda.
Sounds like he recently graduated from the Kapernick school of victimhood.
This dude would honestly still be in poverty if it weren’t for the Tuohys. As a Ravens fan, he was a very mediocre player too, always causing unnecessary penalties. Seems very ungrateful
Not true. The movie was full of lies. Read about his upbringing and you will know he was already staying with a foster family, attending a private school and an all american before he met them.
Are you trolling😂
So if you help someone out of poverty, it is legal and moral to take everything they own - including their name and story!
It is interesting to say they are protecting him and yet they do not put their own adult children in conservatorship.
Not true he was already offered scholarships at lsu , Tennessee etc he was already a all American. Top 25 prospect lol save the bs the white thieves stole from him
@@cindyliao2250 What an uninformed comment. Michael Oher had a conservatorship created for him to get into Ole Miss. It was 2005, silly rules, but with the purpose of gaining admittance before the NCAA eligibility deadline (which was rapidly approaching). Although the conservatorship was created and helped get him accepted, it was never activated. 4 years later, Oher went to the NFL Combine at the same time The Blind Side movie came out ('09) . He could have negotiated for a cut and royalties, but he didn't. He, and his agent, were focused on a lucrative NFL contract. That April, he was drafted by the Ravens and made close to 37 million dollars in his 8 year career. He hired and fired his own agents. He bought a million dollar home in Brentwood and wrote a book. In other words, he had full control over his finances and became a multi-millionaire. Is this a case of the Tuohy's taking everything he owned? In fact, had they not taken him in his junior and senior year of high school, it's unlikely that Oher would have gotten into college with his GPA and would have never gone on to make millions in the pros.
Now, money is tight. The millions are gone and Oher is claiming that he was taken advantage of back in '09 when the movie came out. The Tuohy's, who hired a firm to negotiate a chunk and royalties with Alcon entertainment, gave Oher his 1/5 cut in checks. He declined because he thought he was owed millions. Unfortunately, studios like Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment pay out very little. They have a stranglehold over the industry. The Tuohy's put those tens of thousands that Oher rejected in a trust fund for Oher's son. No, although Oher is the central character, the movie is not JUST about him. It's about him and his relationship with the Tuohy's and audiences like the story because it offered hope in the midst of a racially tense country.
He stopped accepting the royalty payments and now he's complaining about not being paid. Unreal.
So you don’t see an issue with a family claiming to adopt someone to the world and it turns out to be a lie?
Because nobody thought about it? Liar.
For what reason? Could it be the amount was not fair?
He knew it wasn't an adoption. From Oher's own book:
“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. Honestly, I didn’t care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren’t legally what we already knew was real: We were a family.”
@oddjobbob8742 Can't 18-year-olds be adopted?
In the movie, Leigh Anne says to him that are not adopting him because he was an adult over 18.
I love how there is zero skepticism about his story. People always have the knee-jerk reaction they were intended to have, & then when the facts about these situations come out, no one admits their mistake
Yes blame the victim here good job 👍🏾 Instead of the lying family who can't get their facts straight about how much they got paid.
@@hayaglamazonluxe no victim has been established here. There are claims & a pending court case to determine if there is a victim or not. Will you actually follow the court case, or will you carry right on having your points of view fed to you by the deceitful mainstream media?
@@hayaglamazonluxeif it had been a black family that took in a white kid, you'd be on the family's side. So transparent. 😂
Interview " Auntie Debbie " the family close lawyer, for all parties, love to hear what shares she got!!!.
Interview the judge too-- whoever signed off on this ridiculous conservatorship with no evidence of incapacity needs to be stripped of their post and fined
@@harashe1000 All them Jews, were in it together, that slave made money for their kids and they didn't break one sweat...Dam shame Mike!!!...
When he got his license would he not have known he didn't have that last name. He is old enough that I'm sure he would have used his social security card and known his last name wasn't the same. He had never said his money was put into their account as he got older, no control over him so I'm not sure why he just didn't go to them and ask to be taken off 1st.
Not everyone adopted changes their name unless they’re infants or children. Adopted teens rarely do.
I'm not taking sides because I wasn't there. However, my daughter is 18 and wants her step dad to adopt her and she wants to change her last name, but to legally do it as an adult then she has to wait till she is 19. If we do it now then it would be a year anyway possibly before we could go to court and do it.
The Tuohy's never stated they adopted Michael. In fact they said they couldn't because of his age. But, speaking from personal experience, legally adopting someone doesn't make them your child. It's the love you have for them. And how you treat them. Personally I think Michael needs better friends. Someone is giving him bad advice.
They lied-- Tennessee law allowed adult adoptions over 18 (in fact, it's one of the easier states to do an adult adoption). And the Tuohy's never corrected anyone or the movie about what they really did instead-- that's lying by purposeful manipulation and omission to millions of people. I don't think Oher needs better friends, I think the Tuohy's need better morals.
And that was a lie. Adult adoption is real
@@harashe1000 well we'll have to make sure you're not one of those friends. Friends wouldn't let Michael lose the only family he's known without a fight. Families, BTW, aren't made by laws.
@@kimberlywiederhold627 From all the information that's coming out, it sounds to me that Oher was unlucky with his first family and with his conservators (who I would not refer to as family, as they clearly did not wish to be his)
@@harashe1000 they are his family. Families are more than just a legal reference.
You didn’t explain it 17 years ago! 😂👉🏿
It is not a lawsuit! It is a filing to terminate a conservatorship.
Michael Oher doesn't have a thankful bone in his body.
There are so many options here of this sad matter..bottom line in my opinion is this man should have been grateful for all this couple did for him.. PERIOD, POINT, BLANK! now that he he retired from the NFL and no doubt have no other source of income or perhaps very little he wants to stir the pot once more to see what he can get from these gracious people! They have done enough dude! Time to grow tf up and make your own money! smfh! 😐
Michaels side of things literally makes no sense
I understand potentially using the conservatorship as a vehicle to get him into Ole Miss. But he's 37 now. Why is he still under a conservatorship? I keep hearing talk/offers to dissolve the conservatorship and wondering why he's still under it as a grown adult whose had a professional career.
People should wait until the trial finishes before judging either sides. Time will tell
Nobody thought of it? Come on now! Shakedown? As long as they never received any money for Michael when he turned 18.
This Movie came out Many years ago 😢😢..if their Was an issue Michael Should have taken it up with his "Parents "
please read the documents....he didn't know he wasnt adopted and in a conservatorship until THIS YEAR. He said that when the conservatorship papers were presented, the Tuohey family and their lawyers presented it to him deceptively saying its a normal part of the adoption process. Emily D Baker is a lawyer on youtube who goes through the entire documents. Its crazy.
I think both sides aren't being completely honest here.
They targeted this man. He had all kinds of offers from universities.
He got a new book tho
Shes trying too hard. Already picking sides.
Some people is just not grateful. They help him when he needed help. I bet of it wasn't for them he wouldn't be where he is now. Never bite the hands that feed you.
No they helped themselves and Ole Miss
If it wasn't for God he wouldn't be where he is. God gave this young man the talent and the tenacity to play pro football. He was already on his way.
Amen!
You should do a little more research about what really happened. They wouldn’t be bringing a lawsuit if they didn’t have the proof
@@katjam01kr First of all, God has nothing to do with it. Secondly, he didn't have that much talent in the pro level which he would never have gotten the opportunity if it wasn't for the Tuohys.
Oher really showing his backside with this.
My BS detector goes off whenever I hear a southern accent. I like how Nischelle kept his feet to the fire during the whole interview
Can you adopt a legal adult in America?
Even when that movie came out. It was reported that some of that movie was fabricated from family, friends and teammates that knew him best. From reports. But, thats wrong of that family to get money and and still get a percentage of the money from that movie and not Michael Oher. Smh.
This young man should be ashamed, not the family who stepped in and later tried to protect him. If you will remember he had a horrible upbringing and was allegedly emotionally, mentally, and intellectually challenged. This is a shakedown of the family, the family who saved his future.
No good deed goes unpunished. His biological mother agreed to this so I guess she along with this family will be CANCELED
Oh please they saw a chance for money, fame and to help ole miss with a big recruit which was a school they were boosters for at the time. They got bigger status at the school, books, a movie, fame, money from the movie that their kids and them are still collecting to this day etc etc etc. he was already an all American when he met them. He did way more for him then they did for him.
Sean Tuoys'best friend wrote the book to portray the White Saviors swooping in to rescue the illiterate black brute, channel his physical power into the game of football, get him into a private school and then college, fulfilling every retrograde fantasy of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Meanwhile, he was already enrolled in the private school, an All American football stand-out being recruited by numerous big time colleges, and not at all behind in his academic standing.
They manipulated a vulnerable teen and made a fortune off their treachery, just like the NCAA investigator alleged in the movie. They have draped themselves in that White. Savior phony adoption story for 2 decades. Leeann has made it her whole identity. Grow up and smell the coffee.
I Loved the Movie 📽!
I Wanna know the truth! Also worth mentioning, IMHO,.... Seriously, *Where would Michael Oher life have ended up if they Didn't Pick him up that night? Intervene/ Take him in and provide him with all those resources!?*
Hey, I'm just saying! Again, On the intelligence thing, we have a responsibility to know Right. *He did have a tutor, Ms. Sue Right? Again, If you understand the lesson(s) why would you need a Tutor In Highshool and College? WAS THAT TRUE?, Give me the 4-1-1!!?*
Again, I'm not Bashing the Brotha At All, I'm looking at it from a Overrall Not one side over the other Prospective.
Also, I take issue with the Timing⏰ of this all This?! 🤔 All these years don transpired! Even in his book📔 he stated he knew they were his "Conservators" back in 2011 believe?? See video ⬇️
(GO TO @1:40 INTO THIS VIDEO)
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We gotta find out the true! That's My 2 💰's
The Conservatorship Family never filed any accounting paperwork to the courts. The Conservatorship was used for the movie. Name, Image and Likeness. The Conservatorship Family used Michael's Name, Image and Likeness for their foundation and speaking engagements for profit. Why not just end the Conservatorship now. The Conservatorship Family lawyer stated the family will end it now or in the future. The future?
We know the truth. Follow the money. It never lies. They used him.
You are being misled by the movie. The movie is not a truthful retelling-- Oher already knew how to play football. He already had scholarship offers rolling in. If the Tuohy's didn't intervene, he likely would've gotten to the NFL anyways. Whichever school he went to on scholarship would have had people there to rally around him too. I hate that Blind Side movie so much now, nasty piece of work that pulled the wool over people's eyes.
Doesn't it occur to you if the adoption part of the movie was false, other parts of the movie are likely false too?
@@harashe1000 You're the one who's mislead Show the Proof that he Had Scholarship offers and was on that career path TO go to College and Beyond? YOU CAN'T Show me the transcripts!! He was Homeless walking down the road when they picked him up! He even admitted that! You can be the stupid and naive and say he would've made it to the NFL and Had a Career! Do your research Clown, How many talent High school players Look good in High school and Never Make it to College let alone the NFL?! SO GTFOHWTS!
Is that what happens when you help someone out? Then a Attorney tells everyone you being token advantage of!
Why is this all coming out now? If this has been such an issue then why wait.
That is a good question. And they did the family not file paper to end it already?
@@cindyliao2250Michael has a wife. By law she is the Power of Attorney.
Yes… yes I do doubt believe they would do that.
They took him in for 1 year right before he went to college when he was already a all American football player, and “coincidently” got him to go to the same college they went to that they were donors at🤔😂 and just so happens his high school coach got a job at the school as soon as he was recruited… they made it seem like they saved him when in reality he was already on his way, plus before them he was actually living with another family and the principal of the school at some point😂 the movies made it seem like he didn’t know anything about football he had scholarships before they met him, clearly they already knew of his talent and made it their goal to insert themselves for a gain (now that don’t mean they didn’t care about him) but the same way they had him sign a conservatorship the could have actually adopted him🤷🏽♂️ he thought that a conservatorship was making him “part of the family” they said since he was 18 they had to do it this way, even though in that state you can still adopt someone at 18
Just be transparent and show the documents. This could be over in a day.
The family could file to terminate conservatorship but did not.
They claim to be the “good guy” and make someone family when in fact they put the person in conservatorship.
Watch Emily D Baker . shes a former proescutors who goes through the entirey of legal documents.
This family had been calling him their son, "adopted son". Actually stating this lie. But when they make money from their businesses, they only share it with their birth kids. Which is fine, but why the lies? Why tell Mike a conservatorship is like "an adoptin"?
Did they ever call him their *"legally"* adopted son? When it comes to kids living in your house, people use "adopted" all the time without meaning "legally adopted" . Hell, I know parents who constantly refer to their kid's best friend (you know, the one who is always at your house and never seems to go home) as "my adopted son/daughter". 😆
We even use "adopted" for non-humans. I went to the animal shelter and "adopted" my last dog. No lawyers or paperwork were involved. Should I stop telling people that?
As for them "lying" and telling him that a conservatorship was "like an adoption", that is what Michael Oher is *CLAIMING* they told him. But unless he recorded it or has some 3rd party witness who was there and can remember exactly what words they used back in 2004... it's nothing more than a "he said / they said".
@@aldoabruzzi6417 No one uses the phrase " This is our legally adopted son". Your argument is ridiculous.
And the family factually did lead Michael to believe the conservatorship is like an adoption.
The attorney in THIS video on ABC24 Memphis YT channel at 3:30 into the interview states:
"The only way he could sign is if he became part of the family. They had to make him part of the family. That's the route they chose."
So they were clearly mixing in the words family and adoption with conservatorship.
@@Liz-ic6jb AGAIN. People casually use the phrase "adopted son/daughter" *all the time* .... even when they don't mean "legally adopted".
So when anyone else has a child just come and live with them and they call them "my adopted son/daughter" it's a term of AFFECTION. When the Tuohys do the exact same thing....they are LIARS.
Take it up with Michael Oher. In his 2011 book he says that he considered himself part of their family before they even discussed ANY legal action at all. Again... words that everyone else uses casually... the Tuohys are forbidden to use.
Yeah...I don't believe this lawyer. The fact that he's trying to win public opinion is getting out ahead of the story, which makes me distrust him and the Tuohy's. We'll see how this plays out.
If Michael needed money all he had to do was ask, im sure his family would of gladly helped him out. But to try to take advantage and demand 15million off his family who love and cared and took him in. They are rich they don’t any money from anyone. He wouldn’t of even been in the NFL if it wasn’t for them. How ungrateful people are. This is truly disgusting.
yip still ungrateful
So if money wasn't a factor then why is he saying that he was cheated out of money. He was never adopted.
becaues they placed him in a conservatorship....that puts the Tuohy family in the position of Power of Attorney over him in perpetuity. Please google or watch Emily D Bakers commentary of this case on youtube. SHe is a former prosecutor who breaks down legal cases and reads the entire documetns.
Over a decade later you come out with this. Lets not forget he would still be in poverty, in the streets or even worse dead. Bro you were given a 2nd chance that a lot of young unfortunate kids would never have a fraction of.
This family lied to the entire world and benefit from the movie - money and reputation. Just because they offered help does not make it right for them to use him for their own gain.
Exactly. There are many children who were in his situation who would've loved the help he received from that family.
@@NH-tb2sm except all of those were not high level football players that could be directed to their family school Ole Miss so the Touhys had no desire to help all those other kids.
@@darakeaddy6678 if they hadn't helped him he wouldn't have become a football player.
@@darakeaddy6678 Honestly someone should hire the Tuohy's to be GM's in the NFL. Imagine seeing a 16 year old kid who's 300 pounds, homeless & academically ineligible (they met him as a sophomore, do some research) & knowing for a fact that he was NFL Bound. They should receive awards for that sort of foresight.
And even more impressive than that, was Sean Tuohy's business sense! Imagine this, your net worth is upwards of $200 Million but you never stop hustling and snag another couple hundred K from a homeless kid that you took care of for nearly 6 years (all throughout college, he was on their tab), what a heist! .....get real
So why didn’t they just adopt him, I don’t get it?
He had a birth mother, duh. She was allegedly part of this.
@@dfogarty1897 so then why apply for conservatorship if his birth mother is involved?
First of all the birth mother Hass to consent. I’ll be declared unfit by the state, and since he was so emotionally mentally and then she literally had a cat to me. A Conservatorship was the next best thing or a part of an adoption. I don’t know which one it was for them, but I have been through adoption. I am adopted and I’m telling you it is a complex process and in the beginning if you will remember any of the story this was a relationship they weren’t sure was even gonna work out but it did.
He was over 18 years old at that time, you can't adopt over 18 years old in their state.
@@serenawilliams3475 Bingo!!!...
The Tuohys doth protest too much, methinks
The movie residuals shouldn't have to do with anything about taking him in or sacrificing. They each get an equal share because their names and likenesses were used pretty equally in the film. And if he's suing to get part of the $140K they each got, that comes off as selfish to me. LeighAnne (Sandra Bullock) was every bit as the main character as Michael was in that movie. All this white savior stuff, if you believe that, then you believe that Sandra was the main character. So LeighAnne should have the highest share, Michael second, SJ probably third, Sean fourth, and Collins fifth. But if it's easier just to give it all evenly. Sean doesn't need the money. It was $700K split between the 5 of them.
What happened to the great white hope happy endings like Webster or Different Strokes
The Blind Side situation is getting more dramatic & crazy. Seriously.
Hold on…. I could swore they used the term “adopted” in the movie……. This dont make sense….
Movie keyword historical fiction
Yeah they used his image and want the residual payments in the future including his.
#FreeHim #AbolishConservatorships
He was getting NFL drafted ! A stupid conservatorship is for people who are deemed incapacitated. The implication was definitely adoption ! Would the movie had done so well if it ended with him being in a conservatorship? Probably not! How could he have a football career while incapacitated? This lawyer is a devil. Free this man from the 50 billion dollar industry of conservatorships ! It's legal crimes against humanity!!
The Blind Side 2: $15 million Blackmail😂 hope Oher goes to jail
Um, he made millions of dollars. I wish I could have that kind of slavery!
@oddjobbob8742 seriously deranged and pitiful. Fight against your Neanderthal blood. Fight it! 😂🤡👉🏿
@@joeellis1343 Millions of dollars that went to his conservators. Wake up while you're in class.
@oddjobbob8742 Not offended to find more people existing who are fully missing the point. You are quite ignorant on the entire matter of conservatorships. 😏😒
If this is all about money theeeeen, pay him. They’re was no movie without him. Perhaps adoption would have involve tracking down birth parents/ getting them to relinquish parental rights etc. Perhaps, they never “used” the conservativeship actively but they certainly profited HANDSOMELY from it. So pay him, what you owe him and he’ll him higher a money manager. The end
And vice versa, they all split the money equally
$40,000,000 each. .... i could live on that! Especially, if Id had nothing.
@@welshie2007 Why do you think they got 40 million each? They didn’t produce, or write the movie. Even SJ, the younger son of the Touey’s said it was maybe in the tens of thousands, no where near millions, and Oher got a 20% share.
Steve nails every point here. He has solid answers for every question and never once uses anything remotely close to a "no comment" type response.
Michael Oher is gonna be DESTROYED in court.
No he's not. Because that family did not abide by the rules of the conservatorship: No annual reports for 20 or so years? That's a legal requirement. They should have ended it on their own.
@@Liz-ic6jb Nope. In Tennessee there are 3 basic kinds of conservatorships:
- Conservatorship of *Estate* . The authority to manage a person's finances.
- Conservatorship of *Person* . The authority to handle their personal health and life decisions.
- Conservatorship of *Person & Estate* . Authority over both.
The Tuohys have a *Conservatorship of Person* with Michael Oher. They had no control over his finances and there were never any assets in the conservatorship to report ON.
@@Liz-ic6jb hahaha this guy works for the tuohys lawyer, Aldo is working overtime answering every single negative but true comment about the deceiving white savor family, just to get a larger check. They just saw an opportunity to make an extra cash and look like “good Christians”, and now we see their true colors, just your regular hypocrite white savior republican
Sorry to hear
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Wheres the money from the movie that he was supposed to make?
Actually, when the studio initially payed them for the movie rights, it was 2007 and Michael was still at Ole Miss playing football on an NCAA scholarship. So based on NCAA rules, he technically wasn't ALLOWED to accept any payment for his Name, Image or Likeness. If the NCAA caught Michael making any money off the book or movie....there goes his college football career and possibly he never gets to the NFL. So the Tuohys had to hide Michael's payment from the NCAA. They requested that one check for the whole family be made out to Sean, he payed taxes on the whole thing.... and then he split the rest up 5 ways. They gave Michael his share and apparently have a record of it. Since he was done with college by the time the film came out, Sean asked him if he wanted to change things around and be paid directly..... he said "no". So they kept doing it the old way with Sean paying all the taxes and sending Michael a check for his share. He refused to cash the checks so they started putting that money into a trust fund for his son.
Conservativship unbelievable!!!
They should have left his ass on the street for his own people to take care of
He was never on the streets.
He didn't grow up in the streets,you Believe in a dumb movie
Right - if you feed buy cloth for someone that entitled you to put someone in conservatorship and sign away their rights to you.
That is an amazing deal and that is what rich people try to do.
They should've kept their white savior complex to themselves and minded their business
Never grew up on the streets dummie
I watched the movie and I thought he was adopted too
Yes. They helped him. It was his story. He didn't get his fair share. Gold diggers
The movie says adopted
Michael ohrs was swindled simple as that. Why was he able to sign his own contract with the ravens. They had an agenda with the movie ...
Lawyer shouldn’t speak for them they should stand up and speak for them self, they are the parent stand up and be parents. Speak up for your self..
They did. They have all the receipts. What else needs to be said. The movie never claimed he was adopted.
@@michaelschaefer1904 his not talking about in the movie, he said they told him at the time in real life. It was his understanding he was adopt way before movie was made.. at least in his his interview I watch that’s what he said.
@@michaelschaefer1904 where is this they spoke up I’ve not seen any where they came out and said this.
Sounds like Michael is pretty damn ungrateful. Hard to believe the Tuohy family was just trying to take advantage of him. Really…..
read the documents. They DID take advantage of him as well as this fake story they did letting people believe they adopted Michael. They say NOW they neve said they didnt adopt him....but all interviews during the Blindside press they state they adopted him.
Oher is lying about just finding out and the conservatorship in 2023 since he wrote about it in his book in 2011. This family helped him and he is spitting in their faces. From his OWN BOOK,
“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. Honestly, I didn’t care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren’t legally what we already knew was real: We were a family.”
That's a lie because they could have adopted him at 18. They lied to him.
@@jammzy2959 Not according to the law...
@@joeellis1343 then what is the law?
I'll wait.
@@jammzy2959 You can't adopt legal adults. Guess you didn't have to wait long 😃
I could be wrong, but adopting legal adults seems off...
The family was on Below Deck and Sean Tuohy specifically mentioned adopting him. SEAN & LEIGH ANNE ARE ALL ON RECORD AND ON CAMERA PUBLICLY REPEATEDLY STATING THEY ADOPTED HIM. 🙄
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Modern day slaveowners and slave catchers,yall stole Michael's peace of mind.
They know and it's just nastiness
If i was the tuoys i would have extra security, if michael oher is lying he could seek revenge and hurt them.