FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2006 file photo, Mississippi left tackle Michael Oher (74) gestures downfield during a NCAA college football game against Memphis in Oxford, Miss. ) "The Blind Side", the movie based on Michael Lewis' book about former Mississippi tackle Michael Oher made an Oscar winner out of Sandra Bullock, which is probably more impressive than blocking an SEC defensive end. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - Carolina Panthers' Michael Oher speaks to the media during the first day of their NFL football offseason conditioning program in Charlotte, N.C., April 20, 2015. Oher, the former NFL tackle known for the movie “The Blind Side,” filed a petition Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in a Tennessee probate court accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago.(AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2006 file photo, Mississippi left tackle Michael Oher (74) gestures downfield during a NCAA college football game against Memphis in Oxford, Miss. ) "The Blind Side", the movie based on Michael Lewis' book about former Mississippi tackle Michael Oher made an Oscar winner out of Sandra Bullock, which is probably more impressive than blocking an SEC defensive end. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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FILE - Carolina Panthers' Michael Oher speaks to the media during the first day of their NFL football offseason conditioning program in Charlotte, N.C., April 20, 2015. Oher, the former NFL tackle known for the movie “The Blind Side,” filed a petition Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in a Tennessee probate court accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago.(AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
OXFORD — Former Ole Miss star Michael Oher — who became a national sensation as the subject of “The Blind Side” — filed a petition Monday in Shelby County Court stating that he was never legally adopted by Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy and that they have “falsely and publicly represented themselves as (his) adoptive parents."
According to documents obtained by the Daily Journal, Oher stated that he discovered after February of this year the conservatorship papers he signed — which appointed the Tuoys as his conservators — were not equivalent to adoption papers he was under the impression he was signing.
