A former American football star whose life story became an Oscar winning film now says the entire movie was based on lies.
The Blind Side told the story of a foster child who gets adopted by a rich white family and becomes an athletics star for the NFL.
But Michael Oher claims he was never adopted – accusing the couple who raised him of tricking him into a conservatorship, before making millions of dollars out of his fame.
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