Michael Oher, Subject of ‘The Blind Side,’ Sues Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy for Fraud

The 2009 film The Blind Side was a popular feel-good blockbuster, and it also was the pinnacle of actress Sandra Bullock’s career. She won the Best Actress Oscar for portraying Leigh Anne Tuohy, a well-heeled, Memphis interior designer who, with her millionaire husband Sean, took in a disadvantaged Black young man, and helped him get an education, play football, and get a scholarship to the University of Mississippi, or Ole Miss. The young man, named Michael Oher, was one of 12 children born to a drug-addicted mother. He went from foster home to foster home and had periods of homelessness. After Oher enrolled at Briarcrest Christian School and was coached by Hugh Freeze (now a coach at Auburn), Oher eventually started living with the Tuohys, who claimed they would legally adopt him. The movie glosses over that part and concludes with his college acceptance struggles and his admission to Ole Miss. Read More