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The docuseries “The Curious Case Of Natalia Grace” took viewers by storm and now the particular person on the heart of it’s having her say.
The ID collection (ID is owned by CNN’s father or mother firm) explored the weird story of an American couple who allege the lady they adopted from Ukraine in 2010 was truly an grownup little one who they are saying wrecked havoc of their lives.
The story reminded some viewers of the 2009 horror movie “Orphan,” by which a lady with stunted progress poses as 9-year-old little one who’s adopted by unsuspecting mother and father.
Now a brand new collection, “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks,” tells the story from Natalia’s perspective and she or he takes on her adoptive mother and father, Michael and Kristine Barnett.
Right here’s what it’s worthwhile to know to be caught up for the brand new present:
The Barnetts have been a seemingly pleased, center class household with three sons once they determined to increase their household by adopting a 6-year-old lady from Ukraine. Natalia has uncommon dwarfism situation often known as spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita.
The Barnetts hoped that she would grow to be a loving a part of their household, however quickly turned suspicious about her precise age.
The household claimed that moderately than the younger little one they believed they have been adopting, she was an grownup “sociopath.”
“She tried to poison and kill my spouse,” Michael Barnett mentioned in “The Curious Case Of Natalia Grace.”
They alleged a number of situations of Natalia making an attempt to hurt them and their different youngsters.
Kristine Barnett didn’t take part within the authentic documentary.
In 2012, the mother and father efficiently had the courts change Natalia’s authorized age from eight to 22. They moved her out of the household dwelling and into her personal condominium.
Following an investigation, the Barnetts, who’ve since divorced, have been charged with little one neglect. Nonetheless, Michael Barnett was reportedly acquitted in 2022 and fees towards his former spouse have been dropped the next 12 months.
Natlia Grace was finally taken in by Antwon and Cynthia Mans, a pair who befriended her, and she or he’s now able to share her aspect of what she says actually occurred.
She has denied the allegations made by her adoptive mother and father and asserted that she was a toddler when she was adopted.
A clip from the brand new documentary reveals a now grownup Natalia Grace confronting Michael Barnett and asking, “Why did you undertake me within the first place?”
“Many of those questions there’s not going to be a single reply to,” he says earlier than occurring to inform his adopted daughter that they have been each victims of the identical “monster,” his ex-wife and her adoptive mom.
CNN has reached out to Kristine Barnett for remark.
The clip from the brand new docuseries ends with Barnett strolling off after issues bought tense when Antwon Mans, who’s a minister, asks Barnett to respect their house and never curse throughout the dialog.
“The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks” is streaming on Max.