Michael Lewis says Hollywood is to blame for Blind Side adoption row

Author wrote book about Michael Oher and Tuohy family with the NFL star saying family deceived him over events depicted in bestseller.

BLINDSIDED: Michael Lewis, the best-selling author who wrote The Blind Side. Picture: T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images

Michael Lewis, the author of The Blind Side, has defended the family at the heart of the book over allegations they deceived former NFL player Michael Oher.

Oher filed a petition in a Tennessee court earlier this week saying Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy did not adopt him – a central plank of the bestselling book – but instead deceived him into making them his conservators just after his 18th birthday.