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Former NFL star Michael Oher's pre-supposed adoptive parents have responded to his filing of a legal petition against the family.

The Tuoys, who were popularized by acclaimed 2009 film, The Blind Side, allegedly tricked Oher into signing a document which made them conservators, and not his adoptive parents, allowing them to profit off him.

Widespread belief was that Oher was indeed the adopted son of Sean and Leigh Anne Touhy, the latter of whom was played by Sandra Bullock in the Academy Award-winning role.

According to the Daily Memphian, Sean Tuohy responded to Oher's allegations saying: ‘We are going to keep loving Michael.'

In 2004, while Oher was aged 18, he signed on to a petition which made them his conservators - and in other words, able to legally act upon business interests in his name.

ESPN was first to report that Oher filed a 14-page petition in Shelby County, Tennessee Monday alleging the centrality of the movie was a lie and the Tuohy family used him as a means of acquiring further wealth.

The Blind Side, a Michael Lewis book that became the basis for an Oscar-winning film, grossed $309million. Oher alleges in the suit, the conservatorship enabled the Tuohy family to strike a deal wherein they - inclusive of their two children - would receive royalties from the heartwarming movie, specifically $225,000 each in addition to 2.5% of the 'defined net proceeds.'

Oher alleges he received not even a cent from the motion picture which detailed his story of triumph from homelessness to first-round NFL draft pick. Nor, a separate deal which signed over rights to his life's rights to 20th Century FOX.

The film tells of how he was taken in by a wealthy Memphis, Tennessee family who introduced him to football - a sport that not only helped him to go to college, but landed him a career in the NFL.

'The lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher,' per the legal filing obtained by ESPN.

'Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.'

Oher has also asked for there to be an end to the conservatorship, in addition to an injunction which would halt them from using his name and likeness.

The now-retired offensive lineman is also seeking 'a full accounting' of money earned by the family as a result of him.