Hugh Freeze, Michael Oher's high school football coach, weighed in on the former NFL player's lawsuit against the Tuohy family
’s high school football coach,“I think it’s sad. I certainly don’t claim to understand all the ins and outs of adoption, conservatory, all of that. I know what I witnessed,” Freeze, 53, stated in an interview withon Thursday, August 17. “I witnessed a family that totally took in a young man and I think without that, there is no story.”
He went on to call the Tuohy family “admirable” for how they took Oher, 37, under their wing when he was a teen. Their story was the subject of the 2009 film
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