Report: 'Blind Side' subject Michael Oher claims adoption was ruse
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The feel-good story behind the 2009 blockbuster film "The Blind Side" was all a lie, retired NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday in Shelby County, Tenn.
Oher was the subject of the movie, about a well-to-do white family that adopted a Black teenager and gave him the stable home he craved. ESPN, which reviewed the 14-page c