Michael Oher, the former NFL player who shot to stardom as the subject of the book (and movie) The Blind Side, is speaking publicly for the first time about the lawsuit he filed against the family that took him in as a teenager.
The 2006 book by Michael Lewis and subsequent 2009 film starring Sandra Bullock told the story of a Tennessee family, the Tuohys, taking in the teen football star who had been in and out of foster homes, and supporting him on his rise to professional football stardom.
Both the book and the film suggested that Oher had been adopted by the family at 8—but he was actually placed under a legal conservatorship.
