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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: 'Blind Side' Controversy Blind Sides America

The Fox News Rundown

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Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The heartwarming story of family and football told in the 2009 Oscar-winning movie 'The Blind Side' is now the center of a legal battle between a Tennessee family and a former NFL star. Michael Oher, the former football star, is now at odds with Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, the parents of the family that helped him as a teen. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Gerri Willis, FOX Business Network anchor and personal finance reporter, about a new legal petition by Oher against the Tuohy family and what both sides are saying about the situation. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Tammy Bruce. I'm Juan Williams. I'm Shannon Bream and this is the Fox News rundown.

0:08.2

Wednesday, August 16th, 2023. I'm John Saw C.A. If you remember the movie The Blind Side,

0:15.0

you're about to find out that this story is not over yet. It turns out actually that now,

0:20.0

former NFL player Michael Orr is suing the family who took him in during high school.

0:24.6

He thought he was adopted. Technically, he was not. He was actually in a conservatorship.

0:30.6

This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.

0:37.6

From the Fox News Podcasts Network, I'm Ben Dominic Fox News contributor and editor of the

0:42.8

transom.com daily newsletter. And I'm inviting you to join a conversation every week. It's the

0:47.8

Ben Dominic podcast. Subscribe and listen now by going to Fox News Podcasts.com.

1:18.0

You have it in you right now. So it's going to be up to you. So that's what I do every day,

1:22.4

every problem that come about. It's in there after a lawsuit against the family that took him in.

1:27.3

Mr. Orr believes the Tui family may have exploited his story, which went on to be a smash hit

1:31.8

of the box office. So far, not much from the Tui's. This is their lawyer, Randy Fishman.

1:36.8

This lawsuit, this petition was built around an alleged fact that Mr. Orr did not know

1:45.4

that he was not the adoptive son of the Tui's. But rather, there was a conservatorship. He

1:53.6

alleges he just found that out in February of 2023. Fact of the matter is he wrote a book in 2011.

2:06.2

And in 2011, he acknowledged in that book on three separate occasions in that book that he

2:17.3

was that there was in fact a conservatorship. So why did this otherwise happy and inspirational

2:21.7

story take such an ugly turn years later? The blind side was a 2009 film released by Warner Brothers

2:27.9

did super well. Critically, it claimed Bullock wins in Oscar, right? We're talking about it today

2:32.3

with Jerry Willis Fox Business Network anchor and personal finance reporter 2009 this family

2:39.0

down in the South. They try to save this young man. They find who they think is a marvelous football

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