What the Tuohy family attorney said about Michael Oher's petition yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Retired NFL star Oher alleged in a Tennessee court filing Monday that Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy tricked him into making them his conservators when he was 18
Michael Oher claimed in his lawsuit that he didn’t know about his conservatorship until earlier this year, but a resurfaced passage from his 2011 memoir seems to suggest otherwise. “It kind of felt like a formality, as I’d been a part of the family for more than a year at that point,” Oher, 37, wrote in I Beat the Odds, describing his legal arrangement with the Tuohys. “Since I was already over the age of 18 and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my ‘legal conservators.’” Oher went on to allege that Sean and Leigh Anne, both 63, told him that “legal conservators” means “pretty much the exact same thing as ‘adoptive parents,’ but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account.” “Honestly, I didn't care what it was called,” Oher continued. “I was just happy that no one could argue that we were