'The Blind Side' Subject Michael Oher's Brother SJ Tuohy Addresses His Bombshell Conservatorship Lawsuit

etonline.com:

Michael Oher's lawsuit against Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, the couple's son, Sean Tuohy Jr., who goes by SJ, addressed the situation in an interview with .«I knew it was coming.

It was a matter of time,» SJ said of the lawsuit. "… I was surprised it happened the way it did, but no one was caught off guard.«The downfall of Michael's relationship with the Tuohys, SJ said, wasn't „one moment.“»I think when he stopped playing and everything kind of settled down," SJ said of when Michael stopped playing in the NFL in 2016. "… I think it built up over time for him.«Michael and the Tuohy family inspired the Sandra Bullock-led movie after they took in the football star when he was young.

In his lawsuit, which ET obtained, Michael claims that Sean and Leigh Anne tricked him into making them his conservators less than three months after he turned 18 in 2004, allegedly telling 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.Michael only learned in February that the documents he was asked to sign by the Tuohys, under the belief that it was part of the „adoption process,“ were actually conservatorship papers that would strip away his legal rights, the petition says.»If he says he learned that in February, I find that hard to believe," SJ said. "… There were [texts] back in 2020, 2021, [saying,] 'If you guys give me this month I won't go public with things'… I think everyone learned in the past year about the conservatorship stuff because of Britney Spears, so maybe that's the case.«When it comes to the reasons the Tuohys opted to go the conservatorship route rather than the adoption one, SJ speculated, „My guess is it.