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by IMAN MILNER November 9, 2023 Michael Oher, the subject of the 2009 film The Blind Side, allegedly received more than $138,000 from his adoptive parents. ------------------------- Michael
Oher, the subject of the 2009 film _The Blind Side_, allegedly received more than $138,000 from his adoptive parents, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, despite claims that he never profited from
his story, _ESPN _reported. The claim is the latest in an ongoing dispute between Oher and the Tuohy family, who he alleges used his athletic prowess to sell a “white savior” narrative full
of lies in order to make money. “By agreement between the family members including Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, their children SJ and Collins as well as Michael Oher, the book and movie
proceeds were to be split five ways,” said the family’s lawyer, according to _ESPN_. The couple also believes that due to spending “tens of thousands of dollars of their own money to support
Mr. Oher during his high school and college years,” they did not cheat him out of anything that was owed. The profit paid to Oher was reportedly split up over ten payments between Jan 2007
and April 2023. The sum amount also represents money made from the book of the same title, which predates the movie’s release. The film grossed over $300 million at the box office, of which
the Tuohys were paid $432,000 by Twentieth Century Fox, Alcon Film Fund, and Left Tackle Pictures, _ESPN _reported. Oher filed a petition in August to end a conservatorship he alleges the
Tuohys tricked him into signing a mere three months after his 18th birthday. In his book, _When Your Back’s Against The Wall_, Oher describes how the film about his life ultimately hurt his
football career as well as upended the fantasy of family dreamed up by the Tuohys. “There has been so much created from _The Blind Side_ that I am grateful for, which is why you might find
it as a shock that the experience surrounding the story has also been a large source of some of my deepest hurt and pain over the past 14 years,” he wrote, before going on to reveal that the
Tuohys had never formally adopted him as the movie suggested. A lawyer from the family would later clarify that the family’s use of the word “adoption” was meant to be “in the colloquial
sense,” according to _ESPN._