The former NFL player, whose fictionalized life story won Sandra Bullock an Oscar, claims in a legal filing that he was never adopted by the Tuohys, who allegedly profited off him via a 2004 conservatorship.
In 2009, Tim McGraw in The Blind Side, a heart-tugging story of football, kindness and perseverance. This week, fans of the movie have been blind-sided.
In a shocking revelation, retired NFL lineman Michael Oher, whose rags-to-riches story was portrayed in the acclaimed 2009 movie The Blind Side, has come forward with explosive allegations that the heartwarming narrative of his adoption from poverty by a wealthy, white family was a fabricated tale meant to enrich the family at his expense.