The Tuohy family’s attorney, Marty Singer, released a statement that Michael Oher tried to shake down the Tuohy’s for $15 million.
The Tuohy family has responded to former NFL offensive tackle Michael Oher‘s claims of never being adopted by the family, and whose story served as the narrative of the 2009 drama The Blind Side.
Sean Tuohy, the family patriarch expressed that he was “devastated” by the allegations brought upon them by Oher in a 14-page petition on Monday (Aug. 14).
The Tuohy family’s attorney, Marty Singer, released a statement to TMZ today that alleges Oher’s response to the Tuohy’s support was “to threaten them,” citing that Oher said he “would plant a negative story about [the Tuohy’s] in the press unless they paid him $15 million.”
Singer shot down all of the allegations against Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, noting that the two “have always been upfront about how a conservatorship (from which not one penny was received) was established to assist with Mr.
