The 2009 movie “The Blind Side” does not state or imply that the
Tuohy family adopted Michael Oher. Neither does Michael Lewis’ 2006 book
that inspired the film that won Sandra Bullock an Oscar.
In 2011, when Michael Oher published his first memoir, “I Beat the Odds,” he stated directly that the Tuohys secured a conservatorship when he was a senior in high school. He wrote that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy insisted that he maintain a relationship with his biological mother and 11 siblings. Oher wrote that his mother participated in the procedures necessary for the Tuohys to become conservators. ---More...
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