The former NFL star claimed last month that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into a conservatorship when he thought they had been adopted him.
Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy hit back at former NFL star Michael Oher in a new court filing Thursday, saying they never intended to adopt him and denied enriching themselves off his name.high school. He went on to stardom playing for Ole Miss and then the NFL, a story documented in the Oscar-winning movie “The Blind Side.”
The Tuohys maintained they are “ready, willing, and able to terminate the conservatorship by consent at any time,” the filing said. The Tuohys refuted his claim that they told him they intended to legally adopt him. But they said they considered Oher part of their family, and over time he referred to them as “mom” and “dad,” and they referred to him as “son.”
Oher enrolled at the University of Mississippi in Aug. 2005 on a football scholarship at the age of 19.
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