The former N.F.L. participant Michael Oher, whose journey out of poverty and into soccer stardom was dramatized within the 2009 film “The Blind Side,” requested a Tennessee court docket on Monday to formally finish his authorized relationship with the household who took him in, claiming that he had by no means really been adopted and had been tricked into signing away his decision-making powers so the household may make tens of millions of {dollars} off his life story.

Oher, 37, is looking for a termination of the conservatorship that started when he was 18, plus cash that he says he ought to have earned from the film, in addition to an injunction stopping Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy from utilizing his identify and likeness.

The petition, filed in Shelby County in Tennessee, claims that when he thought he was being adopted, the Tuohys urged him to signal a conservatorship wherein he relinquished his potential to enter into contracts. The lawsuit additionally claims that Oher, who began dwelling with the Tuohys at age 16, unknowingly signed away the rights to his life story to twentieth Century Fox in 2007.

Oher’s lawyer, J. Gerard Stranch IV, declined to remark past what was said within the lawsuit.

For “The Blind Side,” the hit movie that starred Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy and Quinton Aaron as Oher, the Tuohys negotiated a contract of $225,000 plus 2.5 p.c of future “defined net proceeds” for themselves and their organic kids, the lawsuit stated.

Oher says within the lawsuit that he obtained nothing whereas the film generated more than $300 million in income worldwide.

The Tuohy household didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from The New York Times. In an interview with The Daily Memphian on Monday, Sean Tuohy stated that he had been “devastated” to listen to in regards to the lawsuit and that it was “upsetting to think we would make money off any of our children.” Tuohy stated that he can be keen to finish the conservatorship and that everyone in his household, together with Oher, received an equal share from the film, round $14,000.

Sean Tuohy went on to say the conservatorship had been supposed to permit Oher to play on the University of Mississippi, which he and his spouse attended.

In Tennessee, a conservatorship is outlined as an association wherein a court docket removes no less than some “decision-making powers and duties” from “a person with a disability who lacks capacity to make decisions in one or more important areas” and grants these duties to a conservator or co-conservators. The 2004 order that granted Oher’s conservatorship to the Tuohys states that Oher appeared to have “no known physical or psychological disabilities.”

According to the petition, Oher solely not too long ago came upon — in February this 12 months — that he had not been legally adopted. Oher agreed to enter into the conservatorship pondering that it was a required a part of the adoption course of, the lawsuit says.

Oher, who retired from soccer in 2017, was chosen with the No. 23 total choose within the 2009 N.F.L. draft by the Baltimore Ravens and performed eight N.F.L. seasons as an offensive deal with for the Ravens, the Tennessee Titans and the Carolina Panthers. He received the Super Bowl with the Ravens in 2013.

He performed faculty soccer from 2005 to 2009 at Mississippi, the place he earned two first-team All-Southeastern Conference honors, in 2007 and 2008, and was named a consensus first-team all-American in 2008.

“The Blind Side,” which was launched in 2009 and was tailored from a 2006 ebook by Michael Lewis, depicts Oher as a poor teenager rising up in Memphis and taking care of his mom, who was hooked on cocaine. The film portrays Oher as a naturally proficient athlete, at each basketball and soccer, who’s noticed by a coach at an area personal college, which later admits him. Oher involves know the Tuohys’ son, Sean Jr., earlier than transferring in with them and incomes a scholarship to Mississippi.

But Oher appeared uncomfortable with the film’s depiction of him, and what it meant for his profession. In a 2015 interview, when he was enjoying for the Panthers, Oher stated that the film had portrayed him as much less clever than he was and had influenced how folks noticed him throughout the sport.

“People look at me and they take things away from me because of a movie,” Oher stated. “They don’t really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That’s why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.”