Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Former NFL player Michael Oher, a first-round draft pick and the subject of the 2009 blockbuster film "The Blind Side," filed a petition Monday to end a nearly 20-year conservatorship with Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, the Tennessee family that claimed to have adopted him.
Oher revealed in those filings that he was never legally adopted by the family – a revelation he claimed to have discovered in February 2023 after alleging that he was misled about the conservatorship, believing that agreeing to it would grant him some sort of familial relationship.
Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher sits on the bench during the first half against the Buffalo Bills in Baltimore on Oct.
24, 2010. (AP Photo/Nick Wass/File) In the days that followed, more questions have been raised on both sides as the Tuohy family has denied all allegations, including that they used the conservatorship as a means to profit off Oher. MICHAEL OHER DEMANDED $15 MILLION, THREATENED TO 'PLANT A NEGATIVE STORY,' TUOHY FAMILY ATTORNEY CLAIMS Victoria Haneman, Frank J.