re: Michael Oher files lawsuit against the Tuohys (adoptive family)

A lot of y’all didn’t read the article and are using only your knowledge from a movie you watched 15 years ago.

Clearly states he was already a well-established Allstate lineman that was already attending the school. The Tuoghy’s weren’t paying his tuition. Yes he was bouncing around from house to house, but looks like they saw dollar signs in the kid and took him in permanently.

They then steered him to sign with their home team and convinced an 18-year-old from a broken home with no concept of law or finances that a conservatorship is essentially an adoption of someone 18 or older, which was a complete lie.

They cut him a little money from the movie, but sounds like they forgot to tell him about the royalties they were getting. While they had an established entertainment agent, his cut of the movie was negotiated by their family friend lawyer, who also set up the conservatorship.

All extremely shady. I’m sorry if the guy who grew up with a drug addict mother and extremely messed up life didn’t turn into a nice person, but if this article is true, he deserves to rake them over the coals. Taking in a kid for two years, just to have him sign with your alma mater doesn’t make you entitled to millions of his money, which, even if the royalties were split five ways, it would’ve been millions for him. Sounds like he was OK with that deal, because he thought he was a part of the family, when really they saw him as the help