'Red Flags!' Tuohys Bragged About Ravens Ex Michael Oher Negotiations on Reality TV Show

Now-retired NFL star Michael Oher, whose supposed adoption out of homelessness and poverty by a wealthy family was the basis for the 2009 film "The Blind Side," is now filing a lawsuit with a Tennessee court claiming the whole premise was merely a fabrication.

The story of former Baltimore Ravens lineman Michael Oher is one so wonderful that even Hollywood couldn't refuse it. Or is it?

The now-retired NFL star, whose supposed adoption out of homelessness and poverty by a wealthy family was the basis for the 2009 film "The Blind Side," is now filing a lawsuit with a Tennessee court claiming the whole premise was merely a fabrication by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy for the purpose of monetary gain.

And now that this story has gone viral on a worldwide scale, others are getting involved.

A People magazine reporter recently dug up a clip from a 2017 episode of "Below Deck" that featured Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy. The newly-resurfaced clip from the show raises what should have been at the time some already incredible red flags. 

The clip was shared in a Tik Tok post by People magazine reporter Abigail Adams and shows the Tuohys discussing the process of negotiations with Steven Spielberg for the rights to the story and script approval.

“So with the whole ‘The Blind Side’ drama going on right now, am I the only person that can’t stop thinking about this episode from ‘Below Deck?’” Adams begins. "As if the movie wasn’t a red flag already, this was an even bigger one, in my opinion, naturally,” she says, adding sarcastically that the episode was called “Blindsided.”

“​The big thing I want to focus on is Sean Tuohy’s response to Captain Lee’s question about how ‘The Blind Side’ actually came about because it’s pretty interesting,” she continues.

“I got a call from Steven Spielberg, Harvey Weinstein. I had to give them the rights to use our name. And I said, ‘I’ll give you the name if I get to read the script and then approve or unapproved,” Sean says on the show. “So sure enough, seven months later we get an envelope in the mail and it’s the script,” he adds.

The lawsuit by Oher alleges that the adoption of Oher as a high school student by the Tuohys never actually happened. Instead, the Tuohys tricked Oher to sign documents making them his conservators after he turned 18 that allowed the couple to have the legal authority to make business deals and decisions in his name.

Also detailed in the lawsuit is the allegation that the Tuohys used that legal power to make the deal for the Oscar-winning film that garnered the couple and their two birth children more than $300 million, while Oher himself received nothing in exchange for his own story.

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