Michel Oher is making his first public statement sincefiling a lawsuit on Monday that alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into a conservatorship and lied about his adoption status. «I am disheartened by the revelation shared in the lawsuit today,» Oher told ET through his rep on Tuesday. «This is a difficult situation for my family and me.
I want to ask everyone to please respect our privacy at this time. For now, I will let the lawsuit speak for itself and will offer no further comment.»Oher claims he only learned details of the conservatorship in February.
He said the Tuohys allegedly told him there was no consequential difference between being adopted and entering into a conservatorship, giving them legal authority to make business deals in his name.The former NFL star claims that he was asked to sign papers under the belief that it was part of the «adoption process,» but that they were actually conservatorship papers that would strip away his legal rights.
The documents, filed in 2004, say the Tuohys «have all powers of attorney to act on his behalf» and that Oher «shall not be allowed to enter into any contracts or bind himself without the direct approval of his conservators.»The 14-page petition filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, alleges that the Tuohys used their power as conservators to negotiate a deal with 20th Century Fox that paid them and their biological children — Collins Tuohy and Sean Tuohy Jr. — millions of dollars in royalties from The Blind Side, which earned more than $330 million.
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