The Michael Oher saga has been dominating the headlines this week, with the former NFL tackle falling out with the Tuohy family who he believed had adopted him until this year.
The relationship between Michal and the Tuohys is well documented as it was the subject of the 2009 film, ‘The Blind Side’. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for playing Leigh Ann Tuohy in the hit movie.
Oher recently filed a lawsuit against the family in which he claims they never adopted him and tricked him into signing a conservatorship that allowed them to profit from business deals on his behalf. He also accuses them of making millions off the movie while he didn’t collect a penny.
Brobible.com is pointing to a tweet from Every Day Should be Saturday founder Spencer Hall leading to a Reddit thread from r/Memphis in which residents who work in the service industry recall how awful their experiences with the family have been over the years.
While this is Reddit and nothing is verifiable, there are plenty of comments which paint the Tuohys in a bad light.
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“That lady used to come in J.Alexanders and be such a B to us,” the top comment reads. “(The people who worked there). She thought she was God or some S.”
A user replied: “Was in the same room with her at an event and stuck-up and entitled pretty much sums it up.”
Another comment reads, “Did a catering event for the whole family one time. I almost got fired because I didn’t know who she was. She was so upset she told my boss. I said “what can I help you with ma’am?” Didn’t like that I wasn’t addressing her by name.”
“I worked at a fine dining establishment in East Memphis and came here to say the same. Out of a lot of rich, entitled, stuck up nightmare regulars we had, she was easily one of the F-Ing worst,” reads yet another negative comment.
A restaurant server claimed, “She was the rudest customer I ever had to come into contact with. She walked in at 9:59 to a place that closed at 10 and then acted like a B all night.”
“That whole family was an absolute nightmare to wait on at Houstons,” someone else wrote.
“She and her daughter Collins are truly terrible people to have to wait on! I was just talking about this with coworkers last weekend,” one user claimed.
There’s also this tweet:
It doesn’t appear that the city is ready to defend the Tuohy family – so Michael, who had a crowd show up for autographs this Tuesday, already has a win in the court of personal opinion.
How his lawsuit holds up in the real one remains to be seen.
