Michael Lewis, the author of ‘The Blind Side’, has revealed who’s really to blame for the current saga involving Michael Oher and the Tuohys.
Oher has filed a lawsuit against the family who helped raise him, claiming he did not receive a penny from the movie’s profits after it was released in 2009. He also asserts that the Tuohys tricked him into signing a conservatorship that allowed them to make business deals on his behalf but didn’t actually make him part of the family.
The former NFL tackle alleges that the Tuohy children received $225,000 and 2.5 percent of the net proceeds, with the film generating over $300 million.
Lewis, though, is refuting that with claims that no one made nearly as much, pointing out that Hollywood is to blame.
“Everybody should be mad at the Hollywood studio system,” he told The Washington Post. “Michael Oher should join the writers’ strike. It’s outrageous how Hollywood accounting works, but the money is not in the Tuohys’ pockets.”
A longtime friend of the family, Lewis has insisted that he and the Tuohys each received $350,000 from the proceeds, adding that Sean and Leigh Anne wanted to divide their share evenly but Oher refused the payments.
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He said he believes they put his share into a trust fund for his son.
“What I feel really sad about is I watched the whole thing up close,” he added. “They showered him with resources and love. That he’s suspicious of them is breathtaking. The state of mind one has to be in to do that — I feel sad for him.”
Oher has been accused of making “outrageous” allegations by a family lawyer who has also claimed that the former offensive lineman has engaged in an effort to shake the Tuohys down.
