‘The Blind Side’ inspiration Michael Oher reveals major inaccuracies in the Oscar-winning tale which made him famous

Professional footballer Michael Oher, whose life story inspired the 2009 Oscar-winning film The Blind Side, has exposed the biggest inaccuracies in the film.

The 38-year-old claimed to the New York Times The film turns him into a caricature he doesn’t recognize, while suing the Tuohy family for allegedly misusing his name, image and likeness to promote speaking engagements that have earned them approximately $8 million over the past 20 years.

He claims they benefited from the film, for which Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award, but that Oher is portrayed in the film as humble and helpless until the Tuohys get involved.

The film grossed $300 million and brought the Tuohys widespread fame.

But the Tuohys allege that Oher is extorting them and demanding $15 million in royalties for the film.

One of Oher’s complaints about the film — and Michael Lewis’s 2006 nonfiction book of the same name — is that it made him seem foolish and helpless before he moved in with the Tuohy family.

He said the book cost him a higher position as a concept writer and the higher salary that came with it because it portrayed him as unintelligent.

“The NFL people wondered if I could read a rule book,” Oher told The New York Times.

After the film came out, Oher also began seeing messages saying, “I’m stupid, I’m stupid.” He noted that “every article about me mentioned The Blind Side, like it was part of my name.”

He now fears the film will have a negative effect on his children.

“If my children can’t do something in class, will their teacher think, ‘Their father is stupid, is that why they don’t understand?’” he confessed.

Oher, who played eight seasons as a starting offensive tackle in the NFL and won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens, has also criticized the way Tuohys has drafted him.

Lewis claims in his book that Leigh Anne Tuohy noticed that Oher was living in a trailer with another black classmate, Quinterio Franklin, and demanded that he move in with her.

But Franklin’s house was actually a prefabricated house.

“I think when you’re rich and you have certain things, you look at the world differently,” Oher said.

“Maybe it looked like a trailer to Mrs. Tuohy.”

But in their own book, In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving, the Tuohys wrote that Oher moved in with us that spring and “suddenly it seemed we had the most sought-after football player in the country living in an upstairs bedroom.”

Oher, however, claims he only moved in with his family in the summer, when he was already one of the most sought-after players for the country’s American football team.

The biggest mistake, however, is that both the film and the book claim that Oher had no idea how to play American football when he first stepped onto the field at a private school in Memphis, Tennessee, where the Tuohy children attended.

In fact, it was the same season that Oher was named to the All-Metro team by The Commercial Appeal, the largest daily newspaper in Memphis, the New York Times reports.

After that season, Oher was regarded as one of the best players in the college football field in the country.

Oher now says he followed the Tuohys story for years because he felt he was unable to tell a different story as a professional footballer.

But after being forced to retire from professional football due to a knee injury, concussion and chronic migraines, he said he was “lost”.

He says Lewis, who also wrote Moneyball and The Big Short, was researching the importance of the left tackle position in American football and the financial resources NFL teams were devoting to the position when he discovered that his old friend, Sean Tuohy, had a potential NFL left tackle living in his house.

Lewis went on to describe his old friend as someone who had an innate talent for instilling confidence in his teenage sons and who especially reached out to the few black athletes at the private school.

The book was subsequently adapted into a film, produced by a company headed by Tuohy’s daughter’s future father-in-law, whose daughter also served as executive producer.

Yet Lewis claims he told the story correctly.

He told the New York Times that he was confident that the people who had heard Oher’s story were giving him an accurate picture of events. He argued that without the Tuohys, Oher would have faced a life of poverty or crime, even though Oher had no criminal history.

“That’s what everyone told me,” Lewis said. “He rode on a really bad track.”

Oher is now suing the Tuohys, claiming in court papers that the family is falsely claiming they adopted him.

Instead, the couple filed for a trusteeship, which would give them control over his finances and major life decisions.

The judge granted this despite the fact that the Tuohys acknowledged that Oher had no physical or mental disabilities, which are required under Tennessee law for a guardianship.

The regime remained in place for twenty years, until the end of Oher’s football career. It is unclear, however, how the Tuohys exercised the power it gave them.

However, Oher’s lawyers claim that this allowed the couple to make a profit from him.

In November, a judge finally revoked the guardianship, but Oher is still seeking unspecified damages.

He claims that he did not profit fairly from the production.

However, the Tuohys have stated that the money was divided into five parts, with their two biological children receiving an equal share.

They claim Oher verbally agreed that the money would go directly to the couple and then be distributed to the others.

Sean and Leigh Anne argue in court documents that Oher’s share amounted to just over $138,000.

His lawyers say he was already receiving royalties, but Oher says he was only paid after he texted the Tuoyhs asking for the money.

The Tuohys have now filed a motion for partial summary judgment, a motion to dismiss a number of claims.

A hearing is now scheduled for October 1. If the case goes to trial, it likely won’t be until next year.