In a matter of days, the heartwarming tale captured in “The Blind Side,” which brought the story of former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher and the family who helped him along the way to the big screen, has been flipped on its head.
Oher, a first-round pick in the 2009 NFL draft out of Ole Miss and a Super Bowl champion with the Baltimore Ravens, petitioned the Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court on Monday to terminate his conservatorship under Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.
The existence of the conservatorship – a legal process by which a court appoints another person or persons to handle an incapacitated individual’s affairs – meant Oher, now 37, had never been legally adopted, which he claimed he'd been led to believe his whole life.