In a legal response filed Thursday, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy said the proceeds from the hit movie 'The Blind Side' were divided evenly among their family members and Michael Oher, and denied ever telling Oher they planned to adopt him.
In the legal filing, the Tuohys also denied ever telling Oher they planned to adopt him. However, they acknowledged having used the term"adopt" in a"colloquial sense" to describe their relationship with Oher."They never intended that reference to be viewed with legal implication," the response said.
The story of the Tuohys and their efforts to help raise Oher out of poverty to the NFL was immortalized in the movie. Last month, Oher filed a petition in Shelby County probate court alleging that a central element of the story -- that the Tuohys had adopted him -- was a lie concocted by the family to enrich itself.
In his court petition, Oher asked a judge to terminate the conservatorship granted to the Tuohys in August 2004, for a full accounting of the money the Tuohys earned using Oher's name and to have the couple pay him his fair share of profits, as well as unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
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