Michael Oher acknowledged his conservatorship with the Tuohy family in his 2011 memoir — more than ten years before he publicly claimed the family duped him into thinking he’d been adopted for nearly two decades.
Oher, whose story inspired the blockbuster movie “The Blind Side,” wrote about the arrangement he signed with Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy in 2004 as an 18-year-old college football recruit in his biography, “I Beat the Odds.”
“Since I was already over the age of eighteen and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my ‘legal conservators.’ They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as ‘adoptive parents,’ but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account.”
“Honestly, I didn’t care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren’t legally what we already knew was real: We were a family.”