The Blind Side producers shared how much their company paid Michael Oher and the Tuohy family, after the former NFL player filed a legal petition accusing the Tuohys of profiting off his story.
Kosove and Johnson also said that the athlete and the family will probably receive future payments as well.
In addition, Kosove and Johnson's statement defended the movie itself after they said Oher's lawsuit gave critics"a justification to unfairly pick apart the movie fourteen years later—some going so far as to call it 'fake' or a 'lie.'" The former NFL star alleges that the couple who took him in as a teenager placed him in a conservatorship.that the Tuohys led him to believe that the conservatorship was equivalent to an adoption and only learned earlier this year that it gave him no familial ties to the football family. He stated that"at no point" did the Tuohys tell him they would have"ultimate control" over his contracts.
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