'Blind Side' inspiration Michael Oher wrote about conservatorship in 2011 book: 'We were a family'

'The Five' co-hosts react to the NFL star alleging his family lied about adoption and made millions. 

After "The Blind Side" became a hit on bookshelves and in theaters, former NFL player Michael Oher released a memoir in 2011 called "I Beat The Odds: From Homeless, To The Blindside."

Randall Fishman, a lawyer for the Tuohy family, said Wednesday that Oher acknowledged his conservatorship with the family and that Other knew he had not been adopted despite filing a petition in Tennessee court claiming he had been lied to about the papers he signed when he was 18.

In the 2011 book, Oher wrote he "became a legal member of the Tuohy family."

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Michael Oher has penned his second book, "When Your Back's Against the Wall." (Denny Simmons / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK)

"There was one major event that happened right after I graduated high school: I became a legal member of the Tuohy family. It felt kind of like a formality, as I’d been a part of the family for more than a year at that point," he wrote.

"Since I was already over the age of eighteen and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my ‘legal conservators.’ They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as ‘adoptive parents,’ but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account.

"Honestly, I didn’t care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren’t legally what we already knew was real: We were a family."

Oher also wrote that his biological mother was brought in for the conservatorship hearing and that she "supported the decision to have the Tuohys listed as my next of kin and legal