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‘The Blind Side’ shared his adoption story. He says it wasn’t true.

Posted on AllSides August 15th, 2023
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Michael Oher, a former NFL player whose story was told in the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” filed court documents Monday alleging that a Tennessee couple he once called mom and dad had falsely claimed that they had legally adopted him when he was a struggling teenager. Oher further alleged that Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy had him sign conservatorship papers that he didn’t realize would give the couple power to make business deals for him. As a high school student in 2004, Oher signed the paperwork, believing it was...

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