Michael Oher “so angry mentally” with portrayal in ‘The Blind Side’

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The Blind Side and his subsequent conservatorship battle.The former Super Bowl winner and his adopted family rose to fame following the release of the 2009 film, starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw.

The movie was based on Oher’s life and charted his rise to fame as a football star with the help of the Tuohy family, who took him in when he was homeless.However, last year, Oher filed a lawsuit claiming he was under the impression that he had been adopted by the Tuohy family, only to later learn that rather than an adoption, it was in fact a conservatorship agreement.The football star signed the agreement when he was 18, which he claims allowed the Tuohy family to control his finances.

The lawsuit accuses the family of “tricking him” into signing the agreement, alleging they used the film as a way of making millions from him.In response, the Tuohy family claimed that Oher was demanding millions of dollars from them, and described his claims as “hurtful and absurd”, claiming it was “transparently ridiculous” that they had tried to profit off him.A judge dissolved the conservatorship last year.Now, Oher has spoken for the first time about the controversy, telling the New York Times he was “hurt” by the family and felt he had “everything stripped from” him.He added that the family treated him well and provided opportunities for him, but said that he felt his portrayal in the film was “inaccurate”, but that it came to define him.“It’s hard to describe my reaction,” Oher said about his reaction to seeing the film for the first time. “It seemed kind of funny to me, to tell you the truth, like it was a comedy about someone else.