Family in Michael Oher drama wants to end conservatorship, lawyers say

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Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy want to end former NFL player Michael Oher's conservatorship, their lawyers said Wednesday.

Lawyer Randall Fishman said Oher mentioned the Tuohys being conservators for him three times in his 2011 book, "I Beat The Odds: From Homeless, To The Blindside." The Tuohys’ lawyers said Oher knew he had not been adopted despite the former player's allegations in Tennessee court earlier this week.

The family intends to enter into a consent order to end the conservatorship, Fishman said.

The family’s attorney also said the Tuohys and Oher had been estranged about a decade. Steve Farese said Oher had become "more and more vocal and more and more threatening" over the past decade or so, and this is "devastating for the family."

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Michael Oher, left, Collins Tuohy, second from left, and Leigh Anne Tuohy, whose lives are portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie "The Blind Side," speak with Pastor Kerry Shook, right, March 3, 2010, at Woodlands Church's Fellowship Campus in The Woodlands, Texas.  (AP Photo/The Courier, Eric S. Swist, File)

A lawyer for Oher did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

Oher filed a petition in Shelby County court Monday accusing the Tuohys of lying to him by having him sign papers to make them his conservators instead of his adoptive parents nearly 20 years ago.

The 37-year-old former NFL lineman is seeking a full accounting of his assets as his life story became a box office smash hit. He says he’s received nothing from the movie, "The Blind Side." He claimed the Tuohys falsely represented themselves as his