@@yerroyerro4652 300 million is what it took in at the box office (gross receipts), the Tuohys' contract was for a percentage of the NET profits. Right off the top, American theaters keep half of that 300 million and overseas theaters keep between 70% - 80%, so you're down to less than 150 million. Then you have marketing costs, distribution costs, investor payback, etc. Alcon was this tiny studio who couldn't afford people like Sandra Bullock and John Lee Handcock.... so their contracts have them getting a chunk of the gross profits. All that comes out of that 300 million before the studio calculates the Tuohy family's cut. The studio verified it was something around half a million. Split that 5 ways, and Michael's payment makes sense. But none of that really matters. He didn't say he made "next to nothing" or "almost nothing". - He lied to his lawyers and said he made NOTHING - They put it in a sworn legal document - And he signed it. Last November, the Tuohys proved with evidence that they sent him TEN checks over the years. The man lied to the Shelby County court... the judge must *_love_* that. And on December 4th of last year, the Tuohys presented to the court the evidence proving that he *did* send them those blackmail texts. His case is toast. Next month when this case goes to court, he joins Amber Heard and Jussie Smollett on the list of false accusing liars.
FYI, the story was bought when he was a high school nobody, you think a nobody's life is worth millions? They bought at 700k,, that's good money. That's why authors are in protest because their stories are paid in small amount.
@@yerroyerro4652 No, ZERO dollars is nothing. This wasn't some casual comment he made in conversation.... it was a statement in a sworn, legal petition.
He got paid 138,000 dollars and he didn’t have to do anything. That sounds like a great deal to me. If someone made a movie about you and gave you 138,000 dollars and you didn’t have to do anything to get it would you turn it down? It’s not like he was in the actual movie and only got 138k.
@@BigD-t1u Are you serious? Music artists sometimes ask for permission or sign a contract with the original owner of a music before it can be used, and so when music hits top 10 the owner gets a huge bonus. So if anyone wants to make a movie about your personal life would you sit back and let them walk away with a huge amount of profit without you having a handsome cut of the profit? Hell no. I don't blame Oher.
@@babsknight are you serious? He did absolutely nothing and got 138k dollars. Without the family there would be no story or movie. 138k back in 2009 is over 200k now so it wasn’t chump change that was a lot of money back then. This is absolutely nothing like the music industry. Music artist actually do work for their money he did nothing and got 6 figures. Go ask any music artist that sign deals with iTunes or any other music platform and they will tell you they make hardly any money off the sales for having their music on the site.
If you didn't listen to any of the parties involved and just look at the facts - what POSSIBLE REASON could the family have for keeping a grown man in a conservatorship for.TWENTY YEARS? There is no justification for controlling someone's finances like that.
Michael says they never made any decisions for him or took any money now he needs money. He needs to go after the writer and the film maker. They are the ones who made the money. Sad fed clothed and bought him a truck but most importantly took him in as family. Greed always gets them. The family were worth a lot when they took him in so didn’t need any of his money. Micheal could have gone to court to get out of it sooner and never did why? In the movie he has legal representation asking questions about the family so he wasn’t blind sided they didn’t take his money.
@@Roswellred2 "In the movie". Based on a true story doesn't mean everything is fact. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based on a true story. It never happened and is based on a man named Ed Gein in Wisconsin. Please don't take your facts from movies, they are just dramatizations.
@@Roswellred2 I'll repeat the question the OP had: what was the justification for controlling this man's money for 20 years? It's interesting how you frame him as greedy but make it a point to mention that the family already had money and didn't need his. Sounds like you're unaware that even wealthy people get greedy when they see potential dollar signs added to their net worth.
No other adoptive family would make an 18 year old sign a conservatership unless he was mentally unfit or they knew he was going to be a cash cow. Greed is an awful thing.
@@benu_bird I know, thats why I believe they mislead him because they made him sign papers at age 18 and they weren't adoptive papers at all. He would have no reason to sign unless he was told they were adoption documents.
Do you know what happens when money and fame hits someone who never had a dime? Read up they were protecting him they helped him he would of been nothing without them they should have dropped it sooner but it dosent mean it's a bad thing to begin with sheep
@@Bravo1-1 I don't have to read up on what happens, I used to work as an investment advisor and I had some celebrity and athlete clients. Most came from nothing and many did well under the right guidencs. And, Ive seen dozens family ad friends try to do what these people did. They saw dollar signs and wanted a piece.
This case went to the court. That family didn’t receive a dime more than he did. The court records his LAWYERS submitted also state that he was VERY AWARE that it was a conservatorship, he was made aware of this MULTIPLE TIMES. This family is not Hollywood, they are not the director or producer of this film AND ripping this family apart over truly loving someone is BEYOND ridiculous. They have proven, their accountants have proven, the records have proven that they didn’t make a dime off of welcoming this young man into their family. Some people get angry and see a large target, and they THINK that they were wronged. He was, not by this family though.
So you're accepting the fact that he made $138K. Then why did he say (twice) in his August 2023 lawsuit that he made *NOTHING* from the movie? Are you accepting the fact that he lied in written legal document?
@@777_LORDGOD The 0.7 GPA is a fact. Not made up in the movie. He was ineligible for the NCAA because his GPA was so low so the Tuohy’s got him a tutor. That whole storyline was real unlike other parts of the movie.
@@erinnire3 Some of the most intelligent people in the world have had no formal education at all. A GPA is no automatic indication of one's intelligence.
exactly and if he was such a dummy why didn't they give him financial literacy ? they knew he was going to make millions and he had nothing! I'm sorry this happened but forgive and let the ill feelings go. He has his own family now . Teach your children financial literacy. This wont happen again.
True... but at that point, what difference did it make? He was in the NFL with his own agents and accountants to advise him, and the conservatorship was sitting on a shelf gathering dust. The Tuohys created it to satisfy the NCAA investigators and had only used it that one time. Their excuse that they completely forgot about it is entirely plausible.
@@charliepiland3285 What are you talking about? There were no checks generated from the conservatorship. It wasn't even that kind of agreement. They cashed checks from the movie studio.... and sent Michael Oher his share. They cashed checks from their book deals and their speaking engagements. NONE of that had a thing to do with the conservatorship.
The only ones to make money off the movie was the writer and the film maker. The family all made the same from the movie. So he is going after the wrong people. Also in the movie it says it’s not an adoption. The family told their story to a writer who sold the story not the family so they didn’t make the money.
Why did the Tuohy's have a conservatorship over Oher in the first place? Did the Tuohy’s receive any other compensation outside of the movie beyond recognition?
@@michaelfowler5760 obviously not if they had to take advantage of a young impressionable 18-year-old kid and when he hit stardom cashed on every opportunity they could! 🤷🏽♂️
They did.... Sean Tuohy explained this all a year ago and his answer made perfect logical sense. The only reason they filed for the conservatorship was to satisfy the NCAA investigators who wanted to see some proof that Michael Oher wasn't just some kid who they were paying to play for Ole Miss. So the judge granted it, they sent a copy to the NCAA to prove they were his legal guardians... not just people bribing him They sent a copy to their healthcare and auto insurance companies so they would let the Tuohys add him to their family policies. And that was it. They stuck it in a file cabinet and never looked at it again. Michael graduated 4 years later, started with the NFL, got his own insurance, hired his own accountants and agents, signed his own contracts. Everyone forgot about the conservatorship until Michael brought it up for this money-grab.
@aldoabruzzi6417 legaleeze for they found legal loopholes in everything and just so happened to profit significantly through the happy coincidence?! Heroes are so misunderstood
@@Lutherson1962 Loopholes for the NCAA stuff? Absolutely. Sean Tuohy was a basketball star in college and knew all about the NCAA and how to satisfy their rules. He knew that Michael was already a part of their family and like a son to them. He wasn't just some poor athlete they plucked out of the projects and were *paying* to play ball for their alma mater. But Sean also knew what the NCAA investigators would be looking for, so they became Michael Oher's legal guardians / conservators. Turns out he was right. The NCAA investigators saw that the Tuohys had some "skin in the game" and that Michael and his birth mother were on board. He wasn't just an "employee".... and they cleared him to accept a scholarship from Ole Miss. When Michael signed that contract for the movie, he was still at Ole Miss and the NCAA had that rule where student athletes were forbidden to accept ANY money for their NIL rights. If Michael gets caught making any money at all from the book or movie, the NCAA ends his football career. So savvy Sean has Michael sign a contract giving his rights away for free... that contract gets sent to the NCAA. Meanwhile he has the studio pay the "family" with a single check made out to him. Sean pays the taxes on the whole thing (no income shows up on Michael's taxes for the NCAA to find) and they split the cash evenly, and they slide Michael his share in cash under the NCAA radar. Yep, Sean Tuohy has no problem exploiting any NCAA loophole if it ends up benefitting Michael Oher. But they never had any intention of "profiting significantly" from any of this.
But his NFL contract is not. You think he’s poor now? Went from homeless at 18 to the NFL and a successful career. Not really a terrible outcome if you ask me
Listen to the video More Closely??? It States that he got ONLY 138,000 N ONLY 10 PAYMENTS???? Highway Robbery Especially if He was Playing PRO NFL Team? I HOPE HE FINDS AN ATTORNEY N HAS THAT FAMILY PAY EVERYTHING BACK TO HIM.
Because it was about the whole family not just him. Plus they got him a book deal thru their personal friend which they make no money from which he never would've gotten if not for them
Loving families do that sort of thing.... they split everything evenly and don't get greedy about who did what and who should get more. So take it up with Michael Oher... back then, he agreed to split it that way. How many movies has Hollywood made about Offensive Linemen? The story of his relationship with the family was the only reason that movie ever got made.
@@thetruedoctrineofchristnet7473 You're kidding, right? Oher wouldn't let the book author interview him. The poor guy had to hunt down his old friends, teachers, foster parents... and interview them to find out about Michael's past. He had to research him like he was writing about a dead person. Michael Oher also wouldn't consult with the Hollywood crew during the filming of the movie. The guy who played him in the movie (Quinton Aaron) didn't even meet him until after the movie was released. The family did it all. Michael Oher did NOTHING to get that book and movie out the door. He waits until it's all done... and then he complains about how it turned out.
@@nolipgloss1343 Years of asking them to end it? When did that happen? He claims that he thought it made him a family member and only found out it didn't when his lawyers told him in February of 2023. No, that thing was a piece of cake. In August he said "I want it ended", the Tuohys said "So do we", and the judge said "OK, it's ended." They never even fought him on that. No, I'm talking about back in November when they brought that whole paper-trail of evidence to court, proving that he was lying in his August petition when he said that he earned nothing from the film. They had all the receipts. TEN checks they had sent him over the years. Ouch! The judge gave his lawyers 20 days to disprove the Tuohys' evidence, and they never did. Then in December they provided the court with all his blackmail text messages. Then the whole story went dead for months. I saw this and I thought it was some new development. Apparently not.
@@nolipgloss1343 I've never heard that they refused to dissolve it. What I read was that he stopped talking to them back in 2017, sent all those blackmail texts in 2020 saying that he would tell the world they cheated him out of money. Then in February of 2023 he claims he found out that a conservatorship was different from an adoption and started demand payment or he would tell the world they never adopted him. They wouldn't cave, so he put the whole thing in writing in August. It makes no sense that they wouldn't end it. They say they never even thought about it after it served its purpose and the NCAA closed its investigation on Aug. 1, 2005.
The Tuohy’s should not have broached, drafted, nor signed, and inclined Oher to sign a conservatorship, until Oher had his own legal representation. Then the Tuohy’s can at least appear to be ethical, and their good deeds not tarnished by the appearance of taking advantage of him.
They had their friend write the non-fiction book the film is based on and their other close friend (called Auntie by the children and Oher) to represent him in the conservatorship and the film negotiations.
@@777_LORDGOD their good deeds helped Oher into the NFL, which led to Oher signing a 5 year $13.4M contract. Big boy blew his football money so he lawyered up to go after the family that helped him.
@@777_LORDGOD the Tuohys were worth over 200 million they didn’t need his money. Oher would have not been able to do anything if it was not for them. The conservatorship allowed him to get a drivers license and all legal documents to attend college without it he would have never been able to go to college period and he would have never gotten into the nfl.
@@BlahBlah-em2edwasn't he being scouted by a few colleges as all american???!! WASNT he going to school with the daughter when the father found him???!! Wasn't he going to BRIARCREST ALREADY???!!
i followed oher when i saw the movie,but turns out he blew all of his NFL earnings and now he's broke and goes after the family that helped him.L for oher
Yeah Micheal oher your tripping they took you in in rural south and gave you a way of life you should be suing the actual movie producers and directors
@@ryaxviper The family didn't get paid millions for the movie... Apparently disney paid them 500K flat and the family split it evenly among the kids which in a way I agree was wrong... Parents should have taken 100k and given Michael the rest...
I’m a black man and I’m going to say I think he’s mistaken. Look if he’s going to sue them and say they took my money show me the money they took me taking money that was given to you. I know he might’ve signed a conservatorship instead of adoption papers, but that makes sense when you’re 18. Especially when you’re 18 and you have no money. Now, if he argues this family took money from him from movie profits fine he can easily go to the movie Company and ask where is all the money and they will show him how much money we paid everybody. If he thinks he didn’t get his fair share go to that movie company and get some documentation of what you got paid from them and what the family gave you in your hand. If he can’t bring that evidence to the table, I don’t know if I believe him. Because there’s one thing I always saw this family did they kept saying we love you even after this lawsuit they said we love you see you Thanksgiving. Now if you think they took money from him, it took him a long time to notice. He’s had an NFL contract for how long. I think he just thinks that they made more money off of this movie off of this book actually was made. Go get the contracts and show them to the world because I am damn sure interested in seeing them. Now one thing I’ve always hated about that movie as a black man is that they did make him appear dumb and I said that doesn’t make sense. I understood why it was done for the drama, but I said it doesn’t make sense to have this. You could’ve easily gotten just as much drama by making some random character in the movie. Think he would be dumb and have him prove otherwise.
The production company isn't just going to open its books for him out of the kindness of their hearts. I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure he has to secure the records through discovery, most likely with a subpoena. You may disagree with his complaint, but suing the family is the only way he can get accurate information about who got paid what and when.
Regarding the movie, making Michael look just kind of big and dumb: as a white person I cringed when I first saw the movie, especially when it got to the end and it shows the clips of Michael as he really is and he doesn't seem slow or dumb at all. I loved the movie, but I hated that they made Michael look stupid.
If he’s 18 with no money what was the point of the conservatorship, what exactly are they protecting him from? How do you justify their actions when the facts are right in front of you
So saying “ I love you” means you do or just to look good to the media? Where are you getting your logic, you speak as if you’re very young minded, familiarize yourself with financial literacy and your perspective should change, hopefully
Fascinating he is going after money after 8 years of being out of the NFL... Wanna know what it really is??? Another NFL player pissed away millions and needs a big payday asap... He could have done this back in 2010...
So Michael was homeless in High School. The Touhy's gave him a home, got him into a private school and took care of all his medical needs gave him a car and a tutor for High School and College years.. Once the movie was made the Touhy's pay outs from the movie were made in equal shares to all the family members..Michael not happy with the payouts made these audacious claims that he himself, contradicts in his own book..Please tell the correct story
@@juliedawson7856you must not understand how the wealthy operate. Wealthy people are ALWAYS looking to stay wealthy. You know how many real life “feel good” stories there are out there? I need to go back to the beginning to find out who and why thought this story needed to be told on the silver screen and what connections this family had to make it happen 🤔
One, movies based on real life stories are almost always dramatized. They often include A LOT of things that aren't factual, but make the movie more appealing to the audience. Second, just because a movie grosses 309 million, does not mean the Tuohy family pocketed that themselves. Most of that money lines the pockets of the studio producing it. Both the Tuohy's and Oher received the same amount for the use of their "likeliness" in the movie. Third, the Tuohy's are wealthy in their own right, they did not need Oher's money at any given time. Forth, the movie as dramatized as it was, never depicted Oher as stupid, just a lack of consistent education. Last but not least, the conservatorship was likely initially put in place due to Oher's financial illiteracy. Whether people want to admit it or not, a lot of underprivileged youths from low income areas, are fiscally irresponsible. I remember watching a 30 for 30 or a Hard Knocks episode and it showed NFL players that admitted to taking their first NFL check to cash checking facilities because they had no knowledge of how to make bank accounts, or any financial information what so ever. Unless they come from a family with money, most have zero knowledge about financial advisors or fiduciaries. I can logically understand that the Tuohy's initially had the conservatorship put in place to help him build his financial literacy, much like his education. However, like most professional athlete's, Oher because one of many that ended up "broke" once their career ended. I don't believe the Tuohy's used the conservatorship in a strict manner, and allowed him more freedom than most, that he ended up spending the majority of his earnings. Let's face it, the Tuohy's generated and currently have generational wealth. You cannot say the same about Oher.
It had nothing to do with his financial literacy. It was the end of the summer of 2004, and Michael Oher still hadn't finalized his college decision between Ole Miss, Tennessee, and LSU. National signing day was 6 months away in February. If he ended up picking one of the other 2 schools.... no problem. But if he picked Ole Miss, the NCAA would block it because the Tuohys were Ole Miss boosters, and all the wonderful things they had given him would look like a "pay-for-play" business deal to get him to play for their alma mater. Lawyer friends suggested that they become his legal guardians to prove that he really was a part of their family. They created the conservatorship which made them his legal guardians. It was all done to *keep his college options open* . Did they hope he would choose Ole Miss? Absolutely. Did they coerce or persuade him to go there? Not according to Michael's autobiography, and he has never made that accusation. It all worked out in the end. The conservatorship took 4 months to process and became final in December... he visited multiple schools that fall, took his sweet time deciding, and finally announced that Ole Miss was his pick in February. The NCAA investigated them for months and ruled they were really a family - not a business deal. The conservatorship had served its purpose. To keep the NCAA happy, they had to leave it in place for 4 years while he was in school. He graduated, started with the NFL and everyone basically forgot all about it. It also allowed the Tuohys put Michael on their family insurance plans. The most important part is that it is a Conservatorship of the *Person,* not a Conservatorship of the *Estate* like Britney had. They have never had any power over his finances... just his healthcare and living arrangement decisions.
This guy was homeless when they took him in; what possible ill-motive do people think this family had for having him sign a conservatorship? They wanted control over his $3? It was obvious he was going to be an NFL player? They masterminded getting him into college and the NFL so that they could make a movie about it? I don’t know every detail of this situation, but like Kaepernick, this guy is lacking a fundamental sense of gratefulness towards the people who gave him a completely new and better life.
Are you slow a conservatorship for 20 years to have access and control of his finance. Something that's meant for people who struggle with mental issues. Mind you they portrayed him as being a big dummy.
@@jowharajafar3848 He was homeless, had been to 9 schools in 11 years, failed 1st and 2nd grade, was homeless and 18; sounds like a prime candidate for a conservatorship to me. He had no money, no scholarship, no NOTHING, and people like you act as if this family was taking advantage of him-that is foolishness. Without this family, Michael Oher would be dead, homeless or in prison.
Sorry mike, but I’m sure you were shown the script and possibly shown the film before it was released. If it wasn’t an accurate portrayal, then something should have been said at that point. Sometimes people need to be grateful for what has been presented before them. They obviously didn’t abuse you or kicked you to the curb once you were of age or of consent. They stood by you from the start when they had no clue what you were capable of on the field.
Well the rest of the family shouldn’t have gotten a dime off this….he is the reason this movie was made….not the other children. Also the fact that they led him to believe he was being adopted when they were only getting a conservatorship is suspicious. They didn’t need a conservatorship over him…he was an adult….if they wanted to help him all they had to do was help….not gain control over any money that would come in to him. He could have been a part of the family with just words….the conservatorship doesn’t make him family….yet they made it sound like it does. All you have to do is say “We are family now….we will help you go to college and feed you and house you and help you have a better life and we will consider you part of this family from now on…..a conservatorship only gives you the control over someone else’s money and means you make decisions about things and they can’t make their own decisions. But this money shouldn’t have been split equally between all 5….that’s a 4 to 1 split…they got 4 parts of the money and he only got 1 part and without him this money wouldn’t have happened….it should have been a half split….they get half and he gets half.
Are u a fool ? His story was made because of the family as well. There would of been no story without the family. They didn’t make it just cause his name. The family is as big of a part of this story as he is & even in his own book he wrote some years back he acknowledged that they couldn’t adopt him because he was already 18 so they brought up the conservatorship so they can get him on their insurance and help him with college stuff so he’s ovb lying about not knowing or getting tricked.
He knew damn well what he was signing and the initial book was about a position that was played with him being the focal point for a few pages. The person who bought the rights to the book decided to make him and the family the main characters
He clearly has something going on as he can’t look at people in the eye when we is having a conversation. He was loved in Charlotte as a Panther and I was happy he came here
He is suing the family for taking advantage of him??why isnt he suing his birth mother and father for taking disadvantage of him? Oh wait..they dont have money
@@TheSavages-po4pj No one would even know who he is without them. He would have never gone to college or played in the NFL. No book, no movie. With what his GPA was when they met him.... he may have not even graduated high school.
@aldoabruzzi6417 All lies. Oher was enrolled at Briancrest High and a 5 star recruit before he even met the Tuohys. I bet you are a Tuohy family friend. Cmon out with it.
They didn't. They had a conservatorship of the *Person.* Not a conservatorship of the Estate like Britney had. They never touched any money he earned from the NFL, his books, public speaking, endorsements, etc. None of it.
The Tuohys didnt benefit financially from their relationship with Michael. All 5 received the same payment(s) from the movie. When a movie starts and it says “BASED on a true story” it means the producer took “creative license” to change the story to the way they want the movie to go. Most of the time, they dont follow exact facts (unfortunately). Sadly Michael due to his OWN greed has destroyed a something good (a relationship with a family who loves him) that had the potential to benefit him much more in the future.
This whole story was just about giving a rich family a good P.R. job. This guy was probably going to be a potential NFL draft without them.Them having him sign a conservatorship that lasted 20 years is sketchy asaf.
U Missed the fact of how he received Minimum Amount of his own $$$ JUST 4 SIGNING A PIECE OF PAPER? Even the news story claims he got only 148,000.00 over 10 payments!!!! HOW WOULD U FEEL IF U MADE MILLIONS IN NFL N GOT A SLAP ON THE WRIST????? To Bad cuz he was 18yrs old wen he signed the financial papers???
Plus he had his own lawyers when signing those NFL contracts. The family had nothing to do with it. Maybe he should ask his wife where the rest of his money is@BlahBlah-em2ed
How much do you think a producer should pay some unknown guy living with an unknown family to make a movie using a script that someone else wrote with zero guarantee of making back any of the millions invested? That’s not how it works. The film director/screenwriter and producers took all of the financial risks.
@@hdelano11 Not really because he has spoken about it way before this. He also has a lot of evidence to prove that he got ripped off. Look into the story deeper and ypu wouldn't say that. That's the problem with people today. They watch a 4 minute clip of a story and think all the information is there. There is so much more to the story that this didn't even touch.
@@Uilani-g4m Actually that's 100% false. They're the ones with the evidence... they have all the receipts, tax forms, etc. Back in November they proved to the court that he LIED in his petition last August when he said he made nothing from the movie. They then proved in December that he's been sending them blackmail texts. You're correct... there is so much more to the story, but none of it supports him.
@Loveabounds. There is no truth to his story. But you're correct on the falling out. He stopped talking to them back in 2017, sent them all those blackmail texts in 2020 and didn't even invite them to his wedding in November 2022. Now he wants us all to believe this LIE that he was "so hurt" when he found out in February of 2023 that he's not legally part of their family? He's hurt because his lawyers told him he has no legal claim to that $220 million fortune of theirs.
No shocker. Happens every year. Inner city kid with talent getting aid from a wealthy yt family. It's called an investment. Nothing new besides Oher speaking out against it.
An investment? That's gotta be the dumbest investment ever. Did you know that only 1.6% of the kids playing football at NCAA colleges today will end up in the NFL? Who in their right mind would want to invest money in something that has a 98.4% of failure? They hired him a 20 hour/week tutor for his entire senior year. 20 hours a week! That's paying half a teacher's yearly salary for a kid whose GPA was in the toilet and may never even get to college. It's ludicrous to think this was some kind of investment.
what about all of the meals and necessities they gave him taking him in? that has to add up to quite a lot. i also wonder if they took trips to Disneyland and stuff like that as a family. seems like money always is the thing that breaks up families.
You literally know nothing about where he spent his money. Just because something worked out because of his hard work doesn’t mean any of the bad stuff that happened to him was deserved.
@@johnrotten3268 please show me the evidence that he did any of this. Just because that’s the choices you would make doesn’t mean everyone else thinks like you.
@@thezu9250 life not fair noone is perfect and this world is messed up get over it. Everyone's made their choices and now years later like everyone else they wait and then speak up that's motive
@@thezu9250 Did you see the pictures of his wedding? 😆🤣 They hired ballerinas to dance at the reception, 2 bands, they had this bridge made of flowers leading to the dance floor, and a 7-tier 5-foot tall cake. Who has a wedding like that AFTER they've been living together for years and already have a couple of kids together? It was so glamorous that People Magazine did a whole article on it. If he's not broke now, he eventually will be.
_"... hero for profit and social brownie points."_ 😆🤣🤭 Bringing an 18 year-old black kid from the projects into their home to sleep down the hall from their teenage daughter probably got the family more like abuse, disgust and ridicule from their wealthy southern peers.
I don't see how one is in an conservativeship until you are almost 40! Why is that a thing at all and you didn't mean harm to a person why not dissolve it once the person is of age and responsibile enough as an adult where they can handle business on their own.
It was a well-known fact that the young man, didn't know how be responsible with money. He blew through any money he received from everything he's done. The rest of the family managed their money just fine, Michael felt that they took advantage of him because they still had some of that money and he did not. So they must have cheated him out of some money. It is all his mismanagement of his finances pure and simple😮
@@Emlane09 Yes it's his Story, but it was theirs also. You think those things that happened for him just happened out of thin air. Again he was irresponsible with his money. Even if he wasn't in a conservatorship for as long as he was, he would still be in the same predicament - Broke as h*ll. If they didn't help him and he had a Sports Agent, like a lot of NFL players do. He would still be broke. Do you see the common denominator here? He couldn't manage his money, this only came up after he had no money left.
@@user-en1zc5vd6y it's a reason they made him sign. Just like anyone in a family that's coming into money. People will blow it all in a second! Obviously they knew he had zero money skills. Which is why he's broke now and wants money. Easy to figure that out. White people don't mean it when they say I love you???? WTF
He stopped talking to them back in 2017, sent all those blackmail texts in 2020 and didn't even invite them to his wedding in November 2022. And we're supposed to believe this LIE that he was "so hurt" when he found out in February of 2023 that he's not legally their family? Sure chief.... you're just crying your little eyes out at the thought of not having a legal claim to that $220 million fortune of theirs.
@@jezeannwilliams1145 Yep. He knew it was a conservatorship. He knew WHY the Tuohys created it (to satisfy the NCAA investigators). He, his accountants, financial planners, and agents all know that the Tuohys never meddled with his finances or his contracts. His lawyers know that all they have to do is throw that word "conservatorship" out there, and the mob will instantly take his side like he's another Britney
Eh gonna have to sit with him on this one. The over the top obnoxiously, arrogant holier than thou portrayal of the family kind of makes them all the more suspicious.
@@danbam3411 You're kidding, right? The stuff he said in his lawsuit has already crashed and burned. He said that they made millions while he made NOTHNG. They provided all the evidence that proves they split the money evenly. He claims that he just found out a conservatorship wasn't the same as an adoption in February of 2023. The rest of us learned all about conservatorships back in 2021 with Britney Spears. And you seriously believe he was all broken up about not being their adopted son? Hell, he stopped talking to them 6 YEARS earlier and was trying to shake them down for $15 million. The dude's a greedy POS who used those kind people.
@@aldoabruzzi6417 we’re not talking about “broke”. We’re talking about him receiving less than he should’ve considering the fact that it was _HIS_ life as the main subject matter. These ghouls looked like gold diggers from the get-go.
But it sounds like they got millions while he got less than 200k. If that’s true, why do they deserve so much more if it’s all of their stories combined?
@@nb-user25 Where do get this "sounds like they got millions" stuff? The same batch of evidence that proved that he got 138K proves that they each made the same amount. So NOBODY got millions.
I've never watched that movie ever since they were exposed. Nothing new. It's always the predators that make themselves look like the heroes. Oher was literally the opposite of that character.
Typical because without the Touhy’s he would have been just another guy working a regular job. Thanks to the Touhy’s for being so generous to such an ungrateful person.
@@OutrageousStangg In his lawsuit, the man said he earned *NOTHING* from the film. It's written in the document twice: Point #15 _"...or even if they simply knew about it and allowed this miscarriage of justice to occur, whereby _*_the Co-Conservators and their children would reap millions of dollars while Co-Conservators ward would receive nothing,_*_ they would have committed a breach of their fiduciary duty so gross and appalling...."_ Point #29. _"... by either Michael's or Conservators's benefit throughout the conservatorship under T.C.A. § 34-3-108(e), _*_as Conservators and their children received millions of dollars and Michael received nothing_*_ for his rights to a $330,000,000 (or more) story that would not have existed without him."_ - *Conservators and their children received millions of dollars* - False accusation - *and Michael received nothing* - Flat-out LIE.... they showed that he cashed the checks $138K is not nothing. It's what everyone else earned. Michael Oher LIED in a sworn legal document. What a greedy POS Then on December 4th they proved to the court that he *did* send them blackmail text messages. They are gonna destroy him with evidence next month.
I forgot his mom being a drug addict, and the Tougey's supporting his education and sending him to a top college making him a professional athlete was the worst thing any couple could have ever done. They could have left him with his mother, and I wonder what his future would have been then?☕🤔
Sad thing he was already a football star he was going to be drafted anyway that's the part they left out. They did the conservatorship so they could make money off him.
People are completely ignoring they placed him in a conservatorship at 18 and we have to pretend the teen that recently came out of it as an adult… is the bad guy here lol
@@pjrodriguez386 He's a greedy, backstabbing POS. He knows exactly why they created the conservatorship. They discussed it with him. He also knows they never used it to touch his money or his contracts. He knows they never used it for anything except to satisfy the NCAA.
He could’ve petitioned the courts to end the conservatorship… he’s a college graduate and a multimillionaire football player with no signs or diagnoses of mental impairment. The family don’t take Anthony from him financially, his NFL money wasn’t a factor. So… it was his decision to stay 🤷🏻♂️
Am I missing something, didn't he get paid millions of dollars to play football??? The whole family got the same amount for his story, so what's his beef? How many millions did the family get for being the family of an NFL player??? My guess would be none!!!! I'm a Ravens fan and I can tell you he was well paid for a lineman who jumped off sides every other snap!!! Maybe they were worried at the time that he would blow all that money from the film, and be bankrupt by now, as so many of his contemporaries are, when he retired from football!!!
The Tuohys were already millionaires when they adopted Oher, who earned over $35M during his NFL career. I don't think it takes a genius to figure out that Oher is running low on pocket money and he's pretending he was tricked. His whole argument here is that he isn't stupid and it cost him draft position, but he was tricked into signing a legal document? Which is it?
@nkwari there was no money to milk when they took him in, so what, you think they were playing some sort of decade-long scam that would likely never pay off?
Your argument falls apart with the document that he signed.. He says they were adoption papers. He should've had legal representation to explain what he was signing at 18 yrs old.. The Tuhoy's knew what they were doing. He signed it thinking they were looking out for him.
I get what Oher is saying but at 18 when he is signing that paper. No one could predict he would become an NFL player or have a movie. Im sure when he was getting a car or new shoes,clothes,etc. He didn't feel like he was taken advantage of. He made the NFL on his own and no one can deny that but his rode became easier because of being taken in by that family. It's sad all the way around
He didn’t seem to mind getting a free scholarship,a place to live a truck and many any other amenities!You made good money with the NFL!Seems ungrateful to me! He probably blew his NFL money!That is why he wants to sue!🤔
Nothing new in sports. It's actually a thing where affluent families get star athletes with family issues and take them in based off what they hope to receive when they make it. That's why the ranking system starts so early. I have a nephew in ELEMENTARY and the bs has already started with people like this family. I could have understood if there wasn't a conservatorship involved. If the story was based on him then wth was everyone getting the same amount for? Were they putting wear and tear on their bodies? Did they receive any other money from or on the behalf of Oher? If he did run through his money as people have stated that doesn't erase the fact he was screwed over.
How come that family denied wrongdoing when they tricked him into signing a conservatorship ???? They thought they could full him now they think they can full us. It’s should be criminal charges against this family, what they did it’s a crime. It’s intentional and intentionally getting involved in his business and taking money. I hope the jury grants him with 10,000,000 dollars. They are fraudsters.
He's an ingrate. His wife made him turn on the family that loved him. This story leaves out the book deal the family got him through their personal friend that they make no money from. They never touched a cent of the 40 mil he made from the NFL which they made possible by getting him into Ole miss. I'm black and the guy is an ingrate
Otro de los muchos atletas que ganan millones en un tiempo y en vez de tener cabeza y gastarlo con prudencia lo gastan en tonterias, aparte de atleta se tenia que haber preparado para luego del deporte, si has derrochado el dinero haber tenido mejor cabeza, ahora a buscar mas para que para que se le vaya otra vez por su mala gestion, es patetico este tipo ...
I adopted a 19 yo who was a drug addict and had his whole life packed in a box (pictures, birth certificate, and mother’s death list of belongings from where she had taken her own life Christmas Eve when he was 10). It was tough to handle and we butted heads many times (once he almost killed me when I confronted him about his continued use). I never had conservatorship, just adoption papers, but I can tell you that I believe it should not matter. The Touhy’s did not have to take him in and had no guarantee of his future success when that was done. They wanted to love and protect him. The law suit, in my opinion, is kind of disrespectful, being ungrateful and greedy. No amount of money could buy the love & encouragement they gave him. I always used to tell my son when he failed again in his addiction that even if I couldn’t believe him, I would always believe in him! Today, he is 7 1/2 years clean, married with 3 kids and another on the way. It saddens me that money is causing such a wedge in this family.
We understand the Tuohy's helped him in many ways including financially - that's a blessing! The matter could be settled by Oher paying the Tuohy's for all their help and with interest. However, WHY would Oher want or need a conservatorship? How could Oher's enrollment into Ole Miss be contingent upon a conservatorship? It appears the only benefitting party of the conservatorship would be the Tuohy's. A conservatorship is a legal arrangement in the US where a judge appoints a guardian to manage the financial or personal affairs of another person. This can happen when someone is unable to manage their own affairs due to age, mental limitations, or physical disability. How could Oher benefit from a conservatorship?
They lied and said they were adopting him and he was becoming part of the family to get him to sign the conservatorship papers as if they were adoption papers. He trusted them enough not to read them.
he already broke, so he sue the family that took care of him what an ungrateful person. people mention he only made 138k or something, dude you made millions during your nfl career yet you sue the family that take care your bum arse for money, the greedy one is oher.
How and why should each one of those family members get money, that clearly he should have gotten more from the movie because it is part of his life story. If you love and want to care for someone then you shouldn't do it to get a payday, you should because it is the right thing to do. Shame on them, he is not for them to make money on.
What's suspicious is that the media keep on repeating this false narrative. What's shocking is that people blindly believe the media, and never question how they could be controlling his finances for 20 years and he only finds out about it in February of 2023? It wasn't that kind of conservatorship. They never had control over his finances or business contracts.
I feel he's being greedy. He made his millions. But he wants more. Couldn't he be gr8ful? If they sinned, let God be the judge. What they did for u, Is worth more than they recieved. Jesus wasn't lying when he said 10xs fold. U will recieve when doing good or bad. That's what I call karma
@@aleathacoleman6413not it not more that they got he only got 100 thousand off the movie nigga they got millions so wtf?? And he can’t help he went pro and got paid a couple million but it was gonna no matter what cuz he had scholarship before he met them look it up
@@aaroncoborn3700 They never got millions. They each got what he got.... $138,000 Why did the man LIE in his lawsuit and say that he made NOTHING from the film?
@@aldoabruzzi6417 cuz he didn’t it already been proven so your dumb for siding with them. And it’s his money they don’t need to have control of it either
Do you understand Karma is a hindu concept. It means the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existence. Jesus directly contradicts this teaching. Jesus came to seek and save, not mete out punishment for divine infractions
Ah yes, and therefore it entitled them to take advantage for 20 years. I guess just doing things because they're the right things to do is out of fashion now. Gothcha.
Pretty sure he won multiple football awards before he even lived with them. He was already a football star. So actually read the facts before you start slandering another person. What’s the point of having access to all this knowledge at your fingertips if you won’t use it. No wonder he’s upset with how this movie negatively portrayed him and was dishonest about what happened. People like you just believe it blindly.
@@thezu9250 No, he wasn't a football star when he started living with them. He's upset with the way the movie portrayed him because he is in denial about how he really was back then. In his fantasy world he was always amazing and never needed help with anything. Have you ever noticed that NONE of his old teachers, coaches, social workers have ever joined him in bashing the movie? They all know it portrays him accurately.
@@aldoabruzzi6417 Dude won several awards before he lived with them. Not sure why youre arguing against an established time line. He won Division II (2A) Lineman of the Year in 2003 but started living with them in 2004.
@@thezu9250 WRONG! Wherever you're getting this garbage from... your "established timeline" is off by a whole year. The fall of 2003 was his Junior football season. He did NOT win Division II, Class A/AA Lineman of the Year as a junior. The winner that year was Jeremy Bentley from Knoxville Catholic. Michael Oher was not even one of the runner ups. He also did NOT make All-State in 2003. The Tennessee All-State linemen that year were: OL ‹ Ramon Foster - Ripley HS OL ‹ Brandon Pearce = Christian Brothers HS OL ‹ Rashaud Cole - Germantown HS OL ‹ Chris Smith - Oakland HS OL ‹ Lamar Divens - Lincoln Co. HS He was a mediocre ballplayer in his junior season. The Blind Side book contains quotes from his coaches and a teammate talking about how unimpressed they were. At the end of the season he has Thanksgiving with the Tuohys and starts spending some nights there. By December he's there so much that they include him on their 2003 Christmas card. By February he's got his own room and is basically living there... only sleeping somewhere else on rare occasions. He gets good at football, wins Lineman of the year and is selected for the All-State team in his *senior* year (2004) AFTER he had been living with the Tuohys for the better part of a year. Michael Oher constantly downplays how long he lived with them in a despicable attempt to cast suspicion of their motives for taking him in. He CLAIMS he "moved in" with them in July 2004 (a month before the conservatorship). In his 2011 book he writes about going to court that day:
_"It kind of felt like a formality, as _*_I’d been a part of the family for more than a year at that point_*_ . "_ So which is it Michael? Did you just "move in" a month before... or had you been spending so many days & nights with them that you were "part of the family" for a YEAR? He's such a lying POS.
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Sounds like he got blindsided
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I see what you did there 😜
lol good one 😢😂
He did
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Movie grossed $309 million worldwide and he received $138,000 for a movie based on his life. Amazing
Take it up with Hollywood. He LIED in his lawsuit said he made *nothing* from the film.
@@aldoabruzzi6417 well 130k is nothing when the movie brought in 300ms
@@yerroyerro4652 300 million is what it took in at the box office (gross receipts), the Tuohys' contract was for a percentage of the NET profits. Right off the top, American theaters keep half of that 300 million and overseas theaters keep between 70% - 80%, so you're down to less than 150 million. Then you have marketing costs, distribution costs, investor payback, etc. Alcon was this tiny studio who couldn't afford people like Sandra Bullock and John Lee Handcock.... so their contracts have them getting a chunk of the gross profits. All that comes out of that 300 million before the studio calculates the Tuohy family's cut. The studio verified it was something around half a million. Split that 5 ways, and Michael's payment makes sense.
But none of that really matters. He didn't say he made "next to nothing" or "almost nothing".
- He lied to his lawyers and said he made NOTHING
- They put it in a sworn legal document
- And he signed it.
Last November, the Tuohys proved with evidence that they sent him TEN checks over the years. The man lied to the Shelby County court... the judge must *_love_* that. And on December 4th of last year, the Tuohys presented to the court the evidence proving that he *did* send them those blackmail texts. His case is toast. Next month when this case goes to court, he joins Amber Heard and Jussie Smollett on the list of false accusing liars.
FYI, the story was bought when he was a high school nobody, you think a nobody's life is worth millions? They bought at 700k,, that's good money. That's why authors are in protest because their stories are paid in small amount.
@@yerroyerro4652 No, ZERO dollars is nothing. This wasn't some casual comment he made in conversation.... it was a statement in a sworn, legal petition.
A hit movie is made about your life story and you only received $138k in installment payments? That’s messed up for sure!
He got paid 138,000 dollars and he didn’t have to do anything. That sounds like a great deal to me. If someone made a movie about you and gave you 138,000 dollars and you didn’t have to do anything to get it would you turn it down? It’s not like he was in the actual movie and only got 138k.
@@BigD-t1u Are you serious? Music artists sometimes ask for permission or sign a contract with the original owner of a music before it can be used, and so when music hits top 10 the owner gets a huge bonus.
So if anyone wants to make a movie about your personal life would you sit back and let them walk away with a huge amount of profit without you having a handsome cut of the profit? Hell no. I don't blame Oher.
@@babsknight are you serious? He did absolutely nothing and got 138k dollars. Without the family there would be no story or movie. 138k back in 2009 is over 200k now so it wasn’t chump change that was a lot of money back then. This is absolutely nothing like the music industry. Music artist actually do work for their money he did nothing and got 6 figures. Go ask any music artist that sign deals with iTunes or any other music platform and they will tell you they make hardly any money off the sales for having their music on the site.
Do your research this ninja aint telling the truth
😳Slave Wages!!!!! No matter how far you go in life the poisonous pool of financial corruption remains the same.
20 years? That’s scary 😱
They knew what they were doing
If you didn't listen to any of the parties involved and just look at the facts - what POSSIBLE REASON could the family have for keeping a grown man in a conservatorship for.TWENTY YEARS? There is no justification for controlling someone's finances like that.
Michael says they never made any decisions for him or took any money now he needs money. He needs to go after the writer and the film maker. They are the ones who made the money. Sad fed clothed and bought him a truck but most importantly took him in as family. Greed always gets them. The family were worth a lot when they took him in so didn’t need any of his money. Micheal could have gone to court to get out of it sooner and never did why? In the movie he has legal representation asking questions about the family so he wasn’t blind sided they didn’t take his money.
Right. And for so many years.
@@777_LORDGOD He could have gotten out of it at any time so why didn’t he?
@@Roswellred2 "In the movie". Based on a true story doesn't mean everything is fact. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based on a true story. It never happened and is based on a man named Ed Gein in Wisconsin. Please don't take your facts from movies, they are just dramatizations.
@@Roswellred2 I'll repeat the question the OP had: what was the justification for controlling this man's money for 20 years? It's interesting how you frame him as greedy but make it a point to mention that the family already had money and didn't need his. Sounds like you're unaware that even wealthy people get greedy when they see potential dollar signs added to their net worth.
No other adoptive family would make an 18 year old sign a conservatership unless he was mentally unfit or they knew he was going to be a cash cow. Greed is an awful thing.
They never legally adopted him.
@@benu_bird I know, thats why I believe they mislead him because they made him sign papers at age 18 and they weren't adoptive papers at all. He would have no reason to sign unless he was told they were adoption documents.
Do you know what happens when money and fame hits someone who never had a dime? Read up they were protecting him they helped him he would of been nothing without them they should have dropped it sooner but it dosent mean it's a bad thing to begin with sheep
Money can drive some people out of their minds!!!
@@Bravo1-1 I don't have to read up on what happens, I used to work as an investment advisor and I had some celebrity and athlete clients. Most came from nothing and many did well under the right guidencs. And, Ive seen dozens family ad friends try to do what these people did. They saw dollar signs and wanted a piece.
This case went to the court. That family didn’t receive a dime more than he did. The court records his LAWYERS submitted also state that he was VERY AWARE that it was a conservatorship, he was made aware of this MULTIPLE TIMES.
This family is not Hollywood, they are not the director or producer of this film AND ripping this family apart over truly loving someone is BEYOND ridiculous.
They have proven, their accountants have proven, the records have proven that they didn’t make a dime off of welcoming this young man into their family.
Some people get angry and see a large target, and they THINK that they were wronged. He was, not by this family though.
$138k for a multi multi million dollar movie? Throw the penalty flag!
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You do realize that the studio had to regain the money they invested to make the movie before anyone else got paid, right?
Budget 29 mil box office 309.2
So you're accepting the fact that he made $138K. Then why did he say (twice) in his August 2023 lawsuit that he made *NOTHING* from the movie? Are you accepting the fact that he lied in written legal document?
@aldoabruzzi6417 hell yeah, he lied. In legal term, a penny is still a money😂😂. So he can be sued ffor perjury?
🤔They used him and then made him look like a dummy in the movie 🙄
He had 0.7 GPA. That sounds like a dummy to me.
Thank you!!1
@@erinnire3 According to the movie.
@@777_LORDGOD The 0.7 GPA is a fact. Not made up in the movie. He was ineligible for the NCAA because his GPA was so low so the Tuohy’s got him a tutor. That whole storyline was real unlike other parts of the movie.
@@erinnire3 Some of the most intelligent people in the world have had no formal education at all. A GPA is no automatic indication of one's intelligence.
The Conservatorship should not have been continued beyond graduation…
exactly and if he was such a dummy why didn't they give him financial literacy ? they knew he was going to make millions and he had nothing! I'm sorry this happened but forgive and let the ill feelings go. He has his own family now . Teach your children financial literacy. This wont happen again.
True... but at that point, what difference did it make? He was in the NFL with his own agents and accountants to advise him, and the conservatorship was sitting on a shelf gathering dust. The Tuohys created it to satisfy the NCAA investigators and had only used it that one time. Their excuse that they completely forgot about it is entirely plausible.
@@miryoa786 You don't need financial literacy quite as much when you have a team of accountants, financial planners, and agents like he did.
@@aldoabruzzi6417 …so, they forgot all about it as they contin7ed to cash the checks it generated for them? Right…
@@charliepiland3285 What are you talking about? There were no checks generated from the conservatorship. It wasn't even that kind of agreement. They cashed checks from the movie studio.... and sent Michael Oher his share. They cashed checks from their book deals and their speaking engagements. NONE of that had a thing to do with the conservatorship.
He only received $138,000?!?!
That's highway robbery!
It’s bull crap.
$309 million is what the movie made worldwide.
That's Hollywood
138k and the payment stops when he turns 38 diabolical😅😅😅
The only ones to make money off the movie was the writer and the film maker. The family all made the same from the movie. So he is going after the wrong people. Also in the movie it says it’s not an adoption. The family told their story to a writer who sold the story not the family so they didn’t make the money.
Why did the Tuohy's have a conservatorship over Oher in the first place? Did the Tuohy’s receive any other compensation outside of the movie beyond recognition?
You know they did! Think about all the bonuses endorsement deals and everything that they had access to for over 20 years
No, they didn't. They didn't need any money, they were already mega millionaires.
@@michaelfowler5760 obviously not if they had to take advantage of a young impressionable 18-year-old kid and when he hit stardom cashed on every opportunity they could! 🤷🏽♂️
@@WilsonS965 they didn't have to. They were legitinately nice people who took a poor, homeless boy off the streets and took care of him.
@@WilsonS965 the tuohys were worth over 200 million dollars they didn’t need any of his money.
Why won't the media ask the Tuohys why they continued to hold on to the conseratorship well into Oher's 30s?
They did.... Sean Tuohy explained this all a year ago and his answer made perfect logical sense. The only reason they filed for the conservatorship was to satisfy the NCAA investigators who wanted to see some proof that Michael Oher wasn't just some kid who they were paying to play for Ole Miss.
So the judge granted it, they sent a copy to the NCAA to prove they were his legal guardians... not just people bribing him They sent a copy to their healthcare and auto insurance companies so they would let the Tuohys add him to their family policies. And that was it. They stuck it in a file cabinet and never looked at it again.
Michael graduated 4 years later, started with the NFL, got his own insurance, hired his own accountants and agents, signed his own contracts. Everyone forgot about the conservatorship until Michael brought it up for this money-grab.
@aldoabruzzi6417 legaleeze for they found legal loopholes in everything and just so happened to profit significantly through the happy coincidence?!
Heroes are so misunderstood
@@Lutherson1962 Loopholes for the NCAA stuff? Absolutely. Sean Tuohy was a basketball star in college and knew all about the NCAA and how to satisfy their rules. He knew that Michael was already a part of their family and like a son to them. He wasn't just some poor athlete they plucked out of the projects and were *paying* to play ball for their alma mater. But Sean also knew what the NCAA investigators would be looking for, so they became Michael Oher's legal guardians / conservators. Turns out he was right. The NCAA investigators saw that the Tuohys had some "skin in the game" and that Michael and his birth mother were on board. He wasn't just an "employee".... and they cleared him to accept a scholarship from Ole Miss.
When Michael signed that contract for the movie, he was still at Ole Miss and the NCAA had that rule where student athletes were forbidden to accept ANY money for their NIL rights. If Michael gets caught making any money at all from the book or movie, the NCAA ends his football career. So savvy Sean has Michael sign a contract giving his rights away for free... that contract gets sent to the NCAA. Meanwhile he has the studio pay the "family" with a single check made out to him. Sean pays the taxes on the whole thing (no income shows up on Michael's taxes for the NCAA to find) and they split the cash evenly, and they slide Michael his share in cash under the NCAA radar.
Yep, Sean Tuohy has no problem exploiting any NCAA loophole if it ends up benefitting Michael Oher. But they never had any intention of "profiting significantly" from any of this.
Why won't the media ask Michael Oher why *he LIED* in his lawsuit and said he was paid nothing for the movie?
$13,800 per year - that is LESS than minimum wage, folks!!
But his NFL contract is not. You think he’s poor now? Went from homeless at 18 to the NFL and a successful career. Not really a terrible outcome if you ask me
Listen to the video More Closely??? It States that he got ONLY 138,000 N ONLY 10 PAYMENTS???? Highway Robbery Especially if He was Playing PRO NFL Team? I HOPE HE FINDS AN ATTORNEY N HAS THAT FAMILY PAY EVERYTHING BACK TO HIM.
$138,000....movie profits split evenly among every family member.
@@ABC-pw5fq They never touched the millions he made playing in the NFL. They never touched ANY of the money he made.
Even if every family member got the same share, that family still pocketed most of the money. Why is everyone getting a “fair” share of his story?
Because it was about the whole family not just him. Plus they got him a book deal thru their personal friend which they make no money from which he never would've gotten if not for them
Loving families do that sort of thing.... they split everything evenly and don't get greedy about who did what and who should get more. So take it up with Michael Oher... back then, he agreed to split it that way.
How many movies has Hollywood made about Offensive Linemen? The story of his relationship with the family was the only reason that movie ever got made.
Nobody can tell his story better than him. Stop excusing the evil these people done
@@thetruedoctrineofchristnet7473 You're kidding, right? Oher wouldn't let the book author interview him. The poor guy had to hunt down his old friends, teachers, foster parents... and interview them to find out about Michael's past. He had to research him like he was writing about a dead person. Michael Oher also wouldn't consult with the Hollywood crew during the filming of the movie. The guy who played him in the movie (Quinton Aaron) didn't even meet him until after the movie was released.
The family did it all. Michael Oher did NOTHING to get that book and movie out the door. He waits until it's all done... and then he complains about how it turned out.
The book wasn't Michael Ohers story it was about the Left Tackle position in Football
The movie WAS NOT a documentary. It was for entertainment purposes only. Some of this won't come close to holding up in court.
True. It was based on a book written by the family’s friend. He should start there as it as portrayed as a true story and not a work of fiction.
He already got destroyed in court back in November/December. The fact that ABC is still parroting his lies from last year is ridiculous.
@@aldoabruzzi6417 destroyed as in finally after years of asking them to end their conservatorship it was ended by a judge?
@@nolipgloss1343 Years of asking them to end it? When did that happen? He claims that he thought it made him a family member and only found out it didn't when his lawyers told him in February of 2023. No, that thing was a piece of cake. In August he said "I want it ended", the Tuohys said "So do we", and the judge said "OK, it's ended." They never even fought him on that.
No, I'm talking about back in November when they brought that whole paper-trail of evidence to court, proving that he was lying in his August petition when he said that he earned nothing from the film. They had all the receipts. TEN checks they had sent him over the years. Ouch! The judge gave his lawyers 20 days to disprove the Tuohys' evidence, and they never did. Then in December they provided the court with all his blackmail text messages. Then the whole story went dead for months. I saw this and I thought it was some new development. Apparently not.
@@nolipgloss1343 I've never heard that they refused to dissolve it. What I read was that he stopped talking to them back in 2017, sent all those blackmail texts in 2020 saying that he would tell the world they cheated him out of money. Then in February of 2023 he claims he found out that a conservatorship was different from an adoption and started demand payment or he would tell the world they never adopted him. They wouldn't cave, so he put the whole thing in writing in August.
It makes no sense that they wouldn't end it. They say they never even thought about it after it served its purpose and the NCAA closed its investigation on Aug. 1, 2005.
The Tuohy’s should not have broached, drafted, nor signed, and inclined Oher to sign a conservatorship, until Oher had his own legal representation. Then the Tuohy’s can at least appear to be ethical, and their good deeds not tarnished by the appearance of taking advantage of him.
well said!
They had their friend write the non-fiction book the film is based on and their other close friend (called Auntie by the children and Oher) to represent him in the conservatorship and the film negotiations.
@@777_LORDGOD their good deeds helped Oher into the NFL, which led to Oher signing a 5 year $13.4M contract. Big boy blew his football money so he lawyered up to go after the family that helped him.
@@777_LORDGOD the Tuohys were worth over 200 million they didn’t need his money. Oher would have not been able to do anything if it was not for them. The conservatorship allowed him to get a drivers license and all legal documents to attend college without it he would have never been able to go to college period and he would have never gotten into the nfl.
@@BlahBlah-em2edwasn't he being scouted by a few colleges as all american???!! WASNT he going to school with the daughter when the father found him???!! Wasn't he going to BRIARCREST ALREADY???!!
I don't think he would have been successful at all without the help they provided..
They were rich already. Why would that be the motivation
i followed oher when i saw the movie,but turns out he blew all of his NFL earnings and now he's broke and goes after the family that helped him.L for oher
Yeah Micheal oher your tripping they took you in in rural south and gave you a way of life you should be suing the actual movie producers and directors
He's now broke. That's why he's suing them. So....they were right.
Bc they took more than half of it
@@ryaxviper The family didn't get paid millions for the movie... Apparently disney paid them 500K flat and the family split it evenly among the kids which in a way I agree was wrong... Parents should have taken 100k and given Michael the rest...
He has 22 million how is that brokd
@@Thunders6381 supposedly... Those things online are not always accurate.
I’m a black man and I’m going to say I think he’s mistaken.
Look if he’s going to sue them and say they took my money show me the money they took me taking money that was given to you. I know he might’ve signed a conservatorship instead of adoption papers, but that makes sense when you’re 18. Especially when you’re 18 and you have no money. Now, if he argues this family took money from him from movie profits fine he can easily go to the movie Company and ask where is all the money and they will show him how much money we paid everybody. If he thinks he didn’t get his fair share go to that movie company and get some documentation of what you got paid from them and what the family gave you in your hand. If he can’t bring that evidence to the table, I don’t know if I believe him. Because there’s one thing I always saw this family did they kept saying we love you even after this lawsuit they said we love you see you Thanksgiving. Now if you think they took money from him, it took him a long time to notice. He’s had an NFL contract for how long. I think he just thinks that they made more money off of this movie off of this book actually was made. Go get the contracts and show them to the world because I am damn sure interested in seeing them.
Now one thing I’ve always hated about that movie as a black man is that they did make him appear dumb and I said that doesn’t make sense. I understood why it was done for the drama, but I said it doesn’t make sense to have this. You could’ve easily gotten just as much drama by making some random character in the movie. Think he would be dumb and have him prove otherwise.
The production company isn't just going to open its books for him out of the kindness of their hearts. I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure he has to secure the records through discovery, most likely with a subpoena. You may disagree with his complaint, but suing the family is the only way he can get accurate information about who got paid what and when.
Regarding the movie, making Michael look just kind of big and dumb: as a white person I cringed when I first saw the movie, especially when it got to the end and it shows the clips of Michael as he really is and he doesn't seem slow or dumb at all. I loved the movie, but I hated that they made Michael look stupid.
And this is why yall will continue to get the crumbs😂
If he’s 18 with no money what was the point of the conservatorship, what exactly are they protecting him from? How do you justify their actions when the facts are right in front of you
So saying “ I love you” means you do or just to look good to the media? Where are you getting your logic, you speak as if you’re very young minded, familiarize yourself with financial literacy and your perspective should change, hopefully
Fascinating he is going after money after 8 years of being out of the NFL... Wanna know what it really is??? Another NFL player pissed away millions and needs a big payday asap... He could have done this back in 2010...
So Michael was homeless in High School. The Touhy's gave him a home, got him into a private school and took care of all his medical needs gave him a car and a tutor for High School and College years.. Once the movie was made the Touhy's pay outs from the movie were made in equal shares to all the family members..Michael not happy with the payouts made these audacious claims that he himself, contradicts in his own book..Please tell the correct story
Why don’t you get the correct story. This is the messy football shenanigans.
@@Sachi52 You tell me the correct story..My story was taken from Michaels book..where did you get yours?
Oh, they knew pay day was coming. They considered it an investment that would yield a great return.
@@Mo-ob8hkThey are private jet wealthy. They didn’t take or need his money.
@@juliedawson7856you must not understand how the wealthy operate. Wealthy people are ALWAYS looking to stay wealthy.
You know how many real life “feel good” stories there are out there? I need to go back to the beginning to find out who and why thought this story needed to be told on the silver screen and what connections this family had to make it happen 🤔
He has talked about this in the past so not really breaking his silence
So sad. The family helped him, he is 1000% wrong. Deters others from doing what they did. Epically sad.
One, movies based on real life stories are almost always dramatized. They often include A LOT of things that aren't factual, but make the movie more appealing to the audience. Second, just because a movie grosses 309 million, does not mean the Tuohy family pocketed that themselves. Most of that money lines the pockets of the studio producing it. Both the Tuohy's and Oher received the same amount for the use of their "likeliness" in the movie. Third, the Tuohy's are wealthy in their own right, they did not need Oher's money at any given time. Forth, the movie as dramatized as it was, never depicted Oher as stupid, just a lack of consistent education. Last but not least, the conservatorship was likely initially put in place due to Oher's financial illiteracy. Whether people want to admit it or not, a lot of underprivileged youths from low income areas, are fiscally irresponsible. I remember watching a 30 for 30 or a Hard Knocks episode and it showed NFL players that admitted to taking their first NFL check to cash checking facilities because they had no knowledge of how to make bank accounts, or any financial information what so ever. Unless they come from a family with money, most have zero knowledge about financial advisors or fiduciaries. I can logically understand that the Tuohy's initially had the conservatorship put in place to help him build his financial literacy, much like his education. However, like most professional athlete's, Oher because one of many that ended up "broke" once their career ended. I don't believe the Tuohy's used the conservatorship in a strict manner, and allowed him more freedom than most, that he ended up spending the majority of his earnings. Let's face it, the Tuohy's generated and currently have generational wealth. You cannot say the same about Oher.
It had nothing to do with his financial literacy. It was the end of the summer of 2004, and Michael Oher still hadn't finalized his college decision between Ole Miss, Tennessee, and LSU. National signing day was 6 months away in February. If he ended up picking one of the other 2 schools.... no problem. But if he picked Ole Miss, the NCAA would block it because the Tuohys were Ole Miss boosters, and all the wonderful things they had given him would look like a "pay-for-play" business deal to get him to play for their alma mater. Lawyer friends suggested that they become his legal guardians to prove that he really was a part of their family. They created the conservatorship which made them his legal guardians. It was all done to *keep his college options open* . Did they hope he would choose Ole Miss? Absolutely. Did they coerce or persuade him to go there? Not according to Michael's autobiography, and he has never made that accusation.
It all worked out in the end. The conservatorship took 4 months to process and became final in December... he visited multiple schools that fall, took his sweet time deciding, and finally announced that Ole Miss was his pick in February. The NCAA investigated them for months and ruled they were really a family - not a business deal. The conservatorship had served its purpose. To keep the NCAA happy, they had to leave it in place for 4 years while he was in school. He graduated, started with the NFL and everyone basically forgot all about it. It also allowed the Tuohys put Michael on their family insurance plans. The most important part is that it is a Conservatorship of the *Person,* not a Conservatorship of the *Estate* like Britney had. They have never had any power over his finances... just his healthcare and living arrangement decisions.
He made millions from the NFL
Something isn't adding up, they gave you peace and a safe place to complete your dream...
They have control over his money wtf
This guy was homeless when they took him in; what possible ill-motive do people think this family had for having him sign a conservatorship? They wanted control over his $3? It was obvious he was going to be an NFL player? They masterminded getting him into college and the NFL so that they could make a movie about it? I don’t know every detail of this situation, but like Kaepernick, this guy is lacking a fundamental sense of gratefulness towards the people who gave him a completely new and better life.
Are you slow a conservatorship for 20 years to have access and control of his finance. Something that's meant for people who struggle with mental issues. Mind you they portrayed him as being a big dummy.
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He was homeless, had been to 9 schools in 11 years, failed 1st and 2nd grade, was homeless and 18; sounds like a prime candidate for a conservatorship to me. He had no money, no scholarship, no NOTHING, and people like you act as if this family was taking advantage of him-that is foolishness. Without this family, Michael Oher would be dead, homeless or in prison.
What your saying is absolutely false you must have scammed someone you know or a family member no one should trust a word you say
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Stop being ridiculous.
@@douglaspinsak1246so you let someone stay with you for 1 year and then you control there finances for 20 years? Come on dude you sound retarded
Sorry mike, but I’m sure you were shown the script and possibly shown the film before it was released. If it wasn’t an accurate portrayal, then something should have been said at that point.
Sometimes people need to be grateful for what has been presented before them. They obviously didn’t abuse you or kicked you to the curb once you were of age or of consent. They stood by you from the start when they had no clue what you were capable of on the field.
Maybe they should have had someone READ the script to him. 😅🤣
Well the rest of the family shouldn’t have gotten a dime off this….he is the reason this movie was made….not the other children. Also the fact that they led him to believe he was being adopted when they were only getting a conservatorship is suspicious. They didn’t need a conservatorship over him…he was an adult….if they wanted to help him all they had to do was help….not gain control over any money that would come in to him. He could have been a part of the family with just words….the conservatorship doesn’t make him family….yet they made it sound like it does. All you have to do is say “We are family now….we will help you go to college and feed you and house you and help you have a better life and we will consider you part of this family from now on…..a conservatorship only gives you the control over someone else’s money and means you make decisions about things and they can’t make their own decisions. But this money shouldn’t have been split equally between all 5….that’s a 4 to 1 split…they got 4 parts of the money and he only got 1 part and without him this money wouldn’t have happened….it should have been a half split….they get half and he gets half.
They were a “family “. Figure it out
Are u a fool ? His story was made because of the family as well. There would of been no story without the family. They didn’t make it just cause his name. The family is as big of a part of this story as he is & even in his own book he wrote some years back he acknowledged that they couldn’t adopt him because he was already 18 so they brought up the conservatorship so they can get him on their insurance and help him with college stuff so he’s ovb lying about not knowing or getting tricked.
He knew damn well what he was signing and the initial book was about a position that was played with him being the focal point for a few pages. The person who bought the rights to the book decided to make him and the family the main characters
He clearly has something going on as he can’t look at people in the eye when we is having a conversation. He was loved in Charlotte as a Panther and I was happy he came here
Last time he looked ppl in the eye they stole his likeness.. no don't look at ppl
Without the Tuohy family taking him in and taking care of him. Where would he be? Never would have made it to the NFL.
He is suing the family for taking advantage of him??why isnt he suing his birth mother and father for taking disadvantage of him? Oh wait..they dont have money
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Well said
Who would gaf about that movie or family if it wasn't for Mike? 😂😂 Oh ok
@@TheSavages-po4pj No one would even know who he is without them. He would have never gone to college or played in the NFL. No book, no movie. With what his GPA was when they met him.... he may have not even graduated high school.
@aldoabruzzi6417 All lies. Oher was enrolled at Briancrest High and a 5 star recruit before he even met the Tuohys. I bet you are a Tuohy family friend. Cmon out with it.
What I’m interested to know is if they had control of his assets/finances for the 20 years. If so, there is no justification for that
They didn't. They had a conservatorship of the *Person.* Not a conservatorship of the Estate like Britney had. They never touched any money he earned from the NFL, his books, public speaking, endorsements, etc. None of it.
Does he not remember he was homeless? And if it wasn’t for this family he wouldn’t be where he is.
Doesn’t look good that Michael Oher said he would drop the case if they gave him 15M. Looks like extortion not a concern about how he was depicted.
The Tuohys didnt benefit financially from their relationship with Michael. All 5 received the same payment(s) from the movie. When a movie starts and it says “BASED on a true story” it means the producer took “creative license” to change the story to the way they want the movie to go. Most of the time, they dont follow exact facts (unfortunately). Sadly Michael due to his OWN greed has destroyed a something good (a relationship with a family who loves him) that had the potential to benefit him much more in the future.
Seems ungrateful !😳
This whole story was just about giving a rich family a good P.R. job. This guy was probably going to be a potential NFL draft without them.Them having him sign a conservatorship that lasted 20 years is sketchy asaf.
They benefited and so did their children! Follow the facts!
Haha no they didn’t nigga he only got 138,000
@@WithoutRemorse12 He would have gone nowhere without them. Without the tutor they paid for... he wouldn't have even graduated high school.
No one cares. It’s been 7 years since he left the NFL. He blew his millions and wants more.
That’s why he is going after them. He blew through the NFL money
How he want more and family just used him dumb.
U Missed the fact of how he received Minimum Amount of his own $$$ JUST 4 SIGNING A PIECE OF PAPER? Even the news story claims he got only 148,000.00 over 10 payments!!!! HOW WOULD U FEEL IF U MADE MILLIONS IN NFL N GOT A SLAP ON THE WRIST????? To Bad cuz he was 18yrs old wen he signed the financial papers???
@@ABC-pw5fq he made $34M in the NFL. And I didn’t miss anything.
Plus he had his own lawyers when signing those NFL contracts. The family had nothing to do with it. Maybe he should ask his wife where the rest of his money is@BlahBlah-em2ed
Greed is the root of all evil. The Touhy's helped him and now it's ended because he feels he didn't get enough money. Sad.
Or he has run out of money.
Was there more to this piece or was that the entire story? They left us with more questions than answers, smh.
What i can say is "count your blessings and be grateful"
I mean you take ownership for 20 years. That itself tells what type of people they are.
I don’t know all the facts, but this doesn’t make either side look good.
Explain?
How much do you think a producer should pay some unknown guy living with an unknown family to make a movie using a script that someone else wrote with zero guarantee of making back any of the millions invested? That’s not how it works. The film director/screenwriter and producers took all of the financial risks.
What do you mean? What did he do wrong?
Either side lol wtf he was blindsided by those crooks
@@murdercattv635a portion of whatever profits it gets
You know, some people are never satisfied.
This is his second rollout of the story. The first attempt was with his book tour. He got sacked
It's he said she said.... Just weird he speaks out now.
@@hdelano11 Not really because he has spoken about it way before this. He also has a lot of evidence to prove that he got ripped off. Look into the story deeper and ypu wouldn't say that. That's the problem with people today. They watch a 4 minute clip of a story and think all the information is there. There is so much more to the story that this didn't even touch.
@@Uilani-g4mIt’s weird how he hasn’t produced this evidence for his lawsuit.
@@Uilani-g4m Actually that's 100% false. They're the ones with the evidence... they have all the receipts, tax forms, etc. Back in November they proved to the court that he LIED in his petition last August when he said he made nothing from the movie. They then proved in December that he's been sending them blackmail texts. You're correct... there is so much more to the story, but none of it supports him.
@Loveabounds. There is no truth to his story. But you're correct on the falling out. He stopped talking to them back in 2017, sent them all those blackmail texts in 2020 and didn't even invite them to his wedding in November 2022. Now he wants us all to believe this LIE that he was "so hurt" when he found out in February of 2023 that he's not legally part of their family? He's hurt because his lawyers told him he has no legal claim to that $220 million fortune of theirs.
No shocker. Happens every year. Inner city kid with talent getting aid from a wealthy yt family. It's called an investment. Nothing new besides Oher speaking out against it.
An investment? That's gotta be the dumbest investment ever. Did you know that only 1.6% of the kids playing football at NCAA colleges today will end up in the NFL? Who in their right mind would want to invest money in something that has a 98.4% of failure? They hired him a 20 hour/week tutor for his entire senior year. 20 hours a week! That's paying half a teacher's yearly salary for a kid whose GPA was in the toilet and may never even get to college. It's ludicrous to think this was some kind of investment.
So it took him 20 years to figure this out? Seems like perhaps he has burned through everything and needs to catch a financial hail Mary pass.
It don't matter how long it took. Have that man his money
It didn't take him 20 years. The lawsuit is just now happening.
what about all of the meals and necessities they gave him taking him in? that has to add up to quite a lot. i also wonder if they took trips to Disneyland and stuff like that as a family. seems like money always is the thing that breaks up families.
This would make for a pretty good sequel for “BlindSide Two.” I think we know who the cast will be as well.
Perhaps the best title is
Totally blindsided
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Blind Side 2: False Accusers (Starring Michael Oher, Jussie Smollet and Amber Heard)
People keep saying he is broke yet he has a networth of 22 million
That makes his betrayal even worse. I could maybe understand him backstabbing them if he was broke and desperate.
Well he made millions in NFL where did that money go, that's greed too you want more money after you making money in the nfl
prolly pissed it away on cars, women, and jewelry.
You literally know nothing about where he spent his money. Just because something worked out because of his hard work doesn’t mean any of the bad stuff that happened to him was deserved.
@@johnrotten3268 please show me the evidence that he did any of this. Just because that’s the choices you would make doesn’t mean everyone else thinks like you.
@@thezu9250 life not fair noone is perfect and this world is messed up get over it. Everyone's made their choices and now years later like everyone else they wait and then speak up that's motive
@@thezu9250 Did you see the pictures of his wedding? 😆🤣 They hired ballerinas to dance at the reception, 2 bands, they had this bridge made of flowers leading to the dance floor, and a 7-tier 5-foot tall cake. Who has a wedding like that AFTER they've been living together for years and already have a couple of kids together? It was so glamorous that People Magazine did a whole article on it. If he's not broke now, he eventually will be.
Never once thought the Blindside was about anyone other than some Southern woman who made herself a hero for profit and social brownie points. 🤷♂️
_"... hero for profit and social brownie points."_ 😆🤣🤭 Bringing an 18 year-old black kid from the projects into their home to sleep down the hall from their teenage daughter probably got the family more like abuse, disgust and ridicule from their wealthy southern peers.
I don't see how one is in an conservativeship until you are almost 40! Why is that a thing at all and you didn't mean harm to a person why not dissolve it once the person is of age and responsibile enough as an adult where they can handle business on their own.
Crazy how ppl think they know u and never even met u
Oher made bad financial decisions and now he needs a pay day. What a slap in the face to Tuhey’s who did so much for him.
No good deed goes unpunished.
It was a well-known fact that the young man, didn't know how be responsible with money. He blew through any money he received from everything he's done. The rest of the family managed their money just fine, Michael felt that they took advantage of him because they still had some of that money and he did not. So they must have cheated him out of some money. It is all his mismanagement of his finances pure and simple😮
But how are they entitled to it? It’s his story
Any well meaning person doesn’t trick someone into “help”. They clearly explain it to the person they are helping
It's more dishonest, conniving christian assholes is what it is, plain and simple.
@@Emlane09 Yes it's his Story, but it was theirs also. You think those things that happened for him just happened out of thin air. Again he was irresponsible with his money. Even if he wasn't in a conservatorship for as long as he was, he would still be in the same predicament - Broke as h*ll. If they didn't help him and he had a Sports Agent, like a lot of NFL players do. He would still be broke. Do you see the common denominator here? He couldn't manage his money, this only came up after he had no money left.
@@user-en1zc5vd6y it's a reason they made him sign. Just like anyone in a family that's coming into money. People will blow it all in a second! Obviously they knew he had zero money skills. Which is why he's broke now and wants money. Easy to figure that out. White people don't mean it when they say I love you???? WTF
He stopped talking to them back in 2017, sent all those blackmail texts in 2020 and didn't even invite them to his wedding in November 2022. And we're supposed to believe this LIE that he was "so hurt" when he found out in February of 2023 that he's not legally their family?
Sure chief.... you're just crying your little eyes out at the thought of not having a legal claim to that $220 million fortune of theirs.
He even admitted in 2010 that he knew it wasn't an adoption, but didn't care cause they were still his family
@@jezeannwilliams1145 Yep.
He knew it was a conservatorship.
He knew WHY the Tuohys created it (to satisfy the NCAA investigators).
He, his accountants, financial planners, and agents all know that the Tuohys never meddled with his finances or his contracts.
His lawyers know that all they have to do is throw that word "conservatorship" out there, and the mob will instantly take his side like he's another Britney
Eh gonna have to sit with him on this one. The over the top obnoxiously, arrogant holier than thou portrayal of the family kind of makes them all the more suspicious.
@@danbam3411 You're kidding, right? The stuff he said in his lawsuit has already crashed and burned. He said that they made millions while he made NOTHNG. They provided all the evidence that proves they split the money evenly.
He claims that he just found out a conservatorship wasn't the same as an adoption in February of 2023. The rest of us learned all about conservatorships back in 2021 with Britney Spears.
And you seriously believe he was all broken up about not being their adopted son? Hell, he stopped talking to them 6 YEARS earlier and was trying to shake them down for $15 million. The dude's a greedy POS who used those kind people.
@@aldoabruzzi6417 we’re not talking about “broke”. We’re talking about him receiving less than he should’ve considering the fact that it was _HIS_ life as the main subject matter. These ghouls looked like gold diggers from the get-go.
So sorry that happened to you.
He could’ve petition to end his conservatorship… he chose not to 🤷🏻♂️
He didn't know he was in a conservatorship. They told him it was adoption paperwork
Money is the root of all evil 😢
Its not just HIS movie. Its all their story
It’s a FALSE STORY …..M0R0N
But it sounds like they got millions while he got less than 200k. If that’s true, why do they deserve so much more if it’s all of their stories combined?
@@nb-user25 Where do get this "sounds like they got millions" stuff? The same batch of evidence that proved that he got 138K proves that they each made the same amount. So NOBODY got millions.
Is this an updated story.
They gave him a home, a career stop complaining
I've never watched that movie ever since they were exposed. Nothing new. It's always the predators that make themselves look like the heroes. Oher was literally the opposite of that character.
I can't watch it anymore because I keep thinking about what a greedy, backstabbing POS he is.
Typical because without the Touhy’s he would have been just another guy working a regular job. Thanks to the Touhy’s for being so generous to such an ungrateful person.
There no such thing as wypipo so it is typical. Steal from a BP. 500 years repeat itself
Robbed That Man BLIND
Apparently not. Back in November they proved he was paid his fair share for the movie.
@@harrynutzach307 138k over 10years for a movie that makes a mockery out of him , that grossed over 300m PLEASE STFU
@@OutrageousStangg In his lawsuit, the man said he earned *NOTHING* from the film. It's written in the document twice:
Point #15
_"...or even if they simply knew about it and allowed this miscarriage of justice to occur, whereby _*_the Co-Conservators and their children would reap millions of dollars while Co-Conservators ward would receive nothing,_*_ they would have committed a breach of their fiduciary duty so gross and appalling...."_
Point #29.
_"... by either Michael's or Conservators's benefit throughout the conservatorship under T.C.A. § 34-3-108(e), _*_as Conservators and their children received millions of dollars and Michael received nothing_*_ for his rights to a $330,000,000 (or more) story that would not have existed without him."_
- *Conservators and their children received millions of dollars* - False accusation
- *and Michael received nothing* - Flat-out LIE.... they showed that he cashed the checks
$138K is not nothing. It's what everyone else earned. Michael Oher LIED in a sworn legal document. What a greedy POS
Then on December 4th they proved to the court that he *did* send them blackmail text messages. They are gonna destroy him with evidence next month.
I forgot his mom being a drug addict, and the Tougey's supporting his education and sending him to a top college making him a professional athlete was the worst thing any couple could have ever done. They could have left him with his mother, and I wonder what his future would have been then?☕🤔
Sad thing he was already a football star he was going to be drafted anyway that's the part they left out. They did the conservatorship so they could make money off him.
@@christellejohnson5967 Drafted anyway? By who?
@@aldoabruzzi64176'4 300+ pounds & agile pretty sure he could've got drafted by any team lol
People are completely ignoring they placed him in a conservatorship at 18 and we have to pretend the teen that recently came out of it as an adult… is the bad guy here lol
@@pjrodriguez386 He's a greedy, backstabbing POS. He knows exactly why they created the conservatorship. They discussed it with him. He also knows they never used it to touch his money or his contracts. He knows they never used it for anything except to satisfy the NCAA.
So what did he say seems like sane ol thing reported a year ago
20 years!
He could’ve petitioned the courts to end the conservatorship… he’s a college graduate and a multimillionaire football player with no signs or diagnoses of mental impairment. The family don’t take Anthony from him financially, his NFL money wasn’t a factor.
So… it was his decision to stay 🤷🏻♂️
His ego is hurt, his NFL career not stellar, so hurt the people who loved him, took care of him.
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Am I missing something, didn't he get paid millions of dollars to play football??? The whole family got the same amount for his story, so what's his beef? How many millions did the family get for being the family of an NFL player??? My guess would be none!!!! I'm a Ravens fan and I can tell you he was well paid for a lineman who jumped off sides every other snap!!! Maybe they were worried at the time that he would blow all that money from the film, and be bankrupt by now, as so many of his contemporaries are, when he retired from football!!!
I am an adoptive mom and I don't push my kids to go into sport or anything to benefit me.......They can be who they are......I wish Sean Touhy well.
He's broke that's why he's suing.
The Tuohys were already millionaires when they adopted Oher, who earned over $35M during his NFL career. I don't think it takes a genius to figure out that Oher is running low on pocket money and he's pretending he was tricked. His whole argument here is that he isn't stupid and it cost him draft position, but he was tricked into signing a legal document? Which is it?
They never adopted him and it is easy to fool an 18 year old. Milking someone for money while portraying it as charity is what it sounds like.
@nkwari there was no money to milk when they took him in, so what, you think they were playing some sort of decade-long scam that would likely never pay off?
Your argument falls apart with the document that he signed.. He says they were adoption papers. He should've had legal representation to explain what he was signing at 18 yrs old.. The Tuhoy's knew what they were doing. He signed it thinking they were looking out for him.
@dashawnthomas9333 if you believe everything he says about it, sure. But why would you?
SO, why are you taking their word over his? @@JohnB-nq4js
I get what Oher is saying but at 18 when he is signing that paper. No one could predict he would become an NFL player or have a movie. Im sure when he was getting a car or new shoes,clothes,etc. He didn't feel like he was taken advantage of. He made the NFL on his own and no one can deny that but his rode became easier because of being taken in by that family. It's sad all the way around
He didn’t seem to mind getting a free scholarship,a place to live a truck and many any other amenities!You made good money with the NFL!Seems ungrateful to me! He probably blew his NFL money!That is why he wants to sue!🤔
They helped him immensely. Now, years later, he is BROKE… and wants money.
Why did he become broke? He is no longer in the NFL?
@@TomatoSmall-lu7tk he spent the money. Ask black women just how well black men manage money. Most of them just can not do it. They spend it.
@@markthomas2436 so he really ungrateful to this family?Really disappointed.
@@markthomas2436black women are the biggest consumers not black men. Stop shaming black men
Nothing new in sports. It's actually a thing where affluent families get star athletes with family issues and take them in based off what they hope to receive when they make it. That's why the ranking system starts so early. I have a nephew in ELEMENTARY and the bs has already started with people like this family. I could have understood if there wasn't a conservatorship involved. If the story was based on him then wth was everyone getting the same amount for? Were they putting wear and tear on their bodies? Did they receive any other money from or on the behalf of Oher? If he did run through his money as people have stated that doesn't erase the fact he was screwed over.
How come that family denied wrongdoing when they tricked him into signing a conservatorship ???? They thought they could full him now they think they can full us. It’s should be criminal charges against this family, what they did it’s a crime. It’s intentional and intentionally getting involved in his business and taking money. I hope the jury grants him with 10,000,000 dollars. They are fraudsters.
What is criminal is you saying 'full'. It's 'fool' fool.
He's an ingrate. His wife made him turn on the family that loved him. This story leaves out the book deal the family got him through their personal friend that they make no money from. They never touched a cent of the 40 mil he made from the NFL which they made possible by getting him into Ole miss. I'm black and the guy is an ingrate
He won't get a dime. His story already fell apart.
Because he was 18 couldn't be adopted had to be a conservatorship
Otro de los muchos atletas que ganan millones en un tiempo y en vez de tener cabeza y gastarlo con prudencia lo gastan en tonterias, aparte de atleta se tenia que haber preparado para luego del deporte, si has derrochado el dinero haber tenido mejor cabeza, ahora a buscar mas para que para que se le vaya otra vez por su mala gestion, es patetico este tipo ...
I adopted a 19 yo who was a drug addict and had his whole life packed in a box (pictures, birth certificate, and mother’s death list of belongings from where she had taken her own life Christmas Eve when he was 10). It was tough to handle and we butted heads many times (once he almost killed me when I confronted him about his continued use). I never had conservatorship, just adoption papers, but I can tell you that I believe it should not matter. The Touhy’s did not have to take him in and had no guarantee of his future success when that was done. They wanted to love and protect him. The law suit, in my opinion, is kind of disrespectful, being ungrateful and greedy. No amount of money could buy the love & encouragement they gave him. I always used to tell my son when he failed again in his addiction that even if I couldn’t believe him, I would always believe in him! Today, he is 7 1/2 years clean, married with 3 kids and another on the way. It saddens me that money is causing such a wedge in this family.
We understand the Tuohy's helped him in many ways including financially - that's a blessing! The matter could be settled by Oher paying the Tuohy's for all their help and with interest. However, WHY would Oher want or need a conservatorship? How could Oher's enrollment into Ole Miss be contingent upon a conservatorship? It appears the only benefitting party of the conservatorship would be the Tuohy's. A conservatorship is a legal arrangement in the US where a judge appoints a guardian to manage the financial or personal affairs of another person. This can happen when someone is unable to manage their own affairs due to age, mental limitations, or physical disability. How could Oher benefit from a conservatorship?
@@777_LORDGOD I think I explained this on another thread. You understand why they did the conservatorship now, correct?
Bless you. You are truly a giving person. I'm glad everything worked out for you and your son.
You are unappreciated how the help kind good people
Dont know whats true. We do t know any of them.
They changed his life for the good
They didn’t have any financial control over him. Straight lie
He didn't write the Book or the Movie
They Did the Work
They lied and said they were adopting him and he was becoming part of the family to get him to sign the conservatorship papers as if they were adoption papers. He trusted them enough not to read them.
That's what he CLAIMS. And you still trust him after he was busted lying about making nothing from the movie?
The Blind Side Part 2 should come out💯😅😅
Total garbage by Michael Oher. He's lied so many times.
he already broke, so he sue the family that took care of him
what an ungrateful person.
people mention he only made 138k or something, dude you made millions during your nfl career yet you sue the family that take care your bum arse for money, the greedy one is oher.
There no such thing as good ypipo. They robbed him blind and that was their plan all along kid.
@@HNiCDuke Racist much?
@@aldoabruzzi6417 you know the thing ypipo deny? 😆
@@HNiCDuke Well, with comments like you make, there's no denying that you're one.
Crooked
It was HIS story. They profited and their children
How and why should each one of those family members get money, that clearly he should have gotten more from the movie because it is part of his life story. If you love and want to care for someone then you shouldn't do it to get a payday, you should because it is the right thing to do. Shame on them, he is not for them to make money on.
Having an 18yr old sign a contract giving you control of their finances for 20 yrs is extremely suspicious.
What's suspicious is that the media keep on repeating this false narrative. What's shocking is that people blindly believe the media, and never question how they could be controlling his finances for 20 years and he only finds out about it in February of 2023?
It wasn't that kind of conservatorship. They never had control over his finances or business contracts.
I feel he's being greedy.
He made his millions.
But he wants more.
Couldn't he be gr8ful?
If they sinned, let God be the judge.
What they did for u,
Is worth more than they recieved.
Jesus wasn't lying when he said 10xs fold. U will recieve when doing good or bad.
That's what I call karma
What?
@@aleathacoleman6413not it not more that they got he only got 100 thousand off the movie nigga they got millions so wtf?? And he can’t help he went pro and got paid a couple million but it was gonna no matter what cuz he had scholarship before he met them look it up
@@aaroncoborn3700 They never got millions. They each got what he got.... $138,000
Why did the man LIE in his lawsuit and say that he made NOTHING from the film?
@@aldoabruzzi6417 cuz he didn’t it already been proven so your dumb for siding with them. And it’s his money they don’t need to have control of it either
Do you understand Karma is a hindu concept. It means the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existence. Jesus directly contradicts this teaching. Jesus came to seek and save, not mete out punishment for divine infractions
Shoulda left him alone and maybe he would be in jail right now. anytime I've helped people they always turn it around when they get on their own feet.
Shush...
@@aleathacoleman6413 Nope 😂
He was homeless before he met them. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you, this pos would have been nothing without these folks.
Ah yes, and therefore it entitled them to take advantage for 20 years. I guess just doing things because they're the right things to do is out of fashion now. Gothcha.
Pretty sure he won multiple football awards before he even lived with them. He was already a football star. So actually read the facts before you start slandering another person. What’s the point of having access to all this knowledge at your fingertips if you won’t use it. No wonder he’s upset with how this movie negatively portrayed him and was dishonest about what happened. People like you just believe it blindly.
@@thezu9250 No, he wasn't a football star when he started living with them. He's upset with the way the movie portrayed him because he is in denial about how he really was back then. In his fantasy world he was always amazing and never needed help with anything. Have you ever noticed that NONE of his old teachers, coaches, social workers have ever joined him in bashing the movie? They all know it portrays him accurately.
@@aldoabruzzi6417 Dude won several awards before he lived with them. Not sure why youre arguing against an established time line. He won Division II (2A) Lineman of the Year in 2003 but started living with them in 2004.
@@thezu9250 WRONG! Wherever you're getting this garbage from... your "established timeline" is off by a whole year.
The fall of 2003 was his Junior football season. He did NOT win Division II, Class A/AA Lineman of the Year as a junior. The winner that year was Jeremy Bentley from Knoxville Catholic. Michael Oher was not even one of the runner ups.
He also did NOT make All-State in 2003. The Tennessee All-State linemen that year were:
OL ‹ Ramon Foster - Ripley HS
OL ‹ Brandon Pearce = Christian Brothers HS
OL ‹ Rashaud Cole - Germantown HS
OL ‹ Chris Smith - Oakland HS
OL ‹ Lamar Divens - Lincoln Co. HS
He was a mediocre ballplayer in his junior season. The Blind Side book contains quotes from his coaches and a teammate talking about how unimpressed they were. At the end of the season he has Thanksgiving with the Tuohys and starts spending some nights there. By December he's there so much that they include him on their 2003 Christmas card. By February he's got his own room and is basically living there... only sleeping somewhere else on rare occasions.
He gets good at football, wins Lineman of the year and is selected for the All-State team in his *senior* year (2004) AFTER he had been living with the Tuohys for the better part of a year.
Michael Oher constantly downplays how long he lived with them in a despicable attempt to cast suspicion of their motives for taking him in. He CLAIMS he "moved in" with them in July 2004 (a month before the conservatorship). In his 2011 book he writes about going to court that day:
_"It kind of felt like a formality, as _*_I’d been a part of the family for more than a year at that point_*_ . "_
So which is it Michael? Did you just "move in" a month before... or had you been spending so many days & nights with them that you were "part of the family" for a YEAR? He's such a lying POS.
How is this legal?