Investigation Discovery (ID) wrapped up its three-part documentary collection, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, on Wednesday (Might 31) night time. It advised the unbelievable story of a pair adopting an grownup they accused of pretending to be a six-year-old Ukrainian orphan.
Now, Grace is attending to open up in a two-hour follow-up documentary, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks, the place she is going to share her aspect of this uncommon case, which can be set to be tailored into an eight-part Hulu scripted collection starring Ellen Pompeo and Imogen Reid.
“That is my aspect of the story, and I’m going to say what occurred as a result of I by no means bought an opportunity to say what occurred,” Grace says in a trailer shared by ET Online.
Michael Barnett and Kristine Barnett, a now-divorced couple from Indiana, adopted Grace in 2010, pondering she was a six-year-old woman. The couple, who didn’t notice Grace had spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (a type of dwarfism), got here to imagine their newly adopted daughter was not really a baby.
The Barnetts claimed Grace tried to hurt them and their youngsters, together with accusations that she tried to poison Kristine, pushed Michael into an electrical fence, and brandished a knife towards Michael whereas he was in mattress.
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“The issues that Kristine and Michael have stated that I’ve finished is a lie,” Grace states within the trailer for the upcoming doc. “I’ve by no means finished something that Kristine and Michael have stated that I’ve finished.”
Kristine and Michael finally had Grace’s authorized age modified from six to 22. Then, in 2013, the household moved to Canada, leaving Grace behind in an house in Lafayette, Indiana. The couple was later charged with abandonment, although Michael was discovered not responsible in 2022, whereas the costs in opposition to Kristine had been dropped in March 2023.
As for Grace, she was adopted by one other couple, Anton and Cynthia Mans, who turned her authorized guardians in 2016 and imagine Grace to be an adolescent.
“You possibly can ask anyone in my household now. You possibly can ask Bishop Antwon and Cynthia Mans that, simply ask them, ‘Has she ever finished something?’ They are going to inform you who I actually am. They’re not going to lie, and neither am I,” Natalia says within the clip.
Grace goes on to say it’s “irritating” to listen to all of the issues Kristine and Michael have stated about her. “I already don’t know who I’m, and I need to know who I’m and what occurred to me, however I’m listening to all these items that by no means really occurred from Kristine and Michael,” she states.
“I’m like, ‘It’s stunning, and it’s irritating.’ As a result of that’s not even true,” she continues. |And persons are believing what Kristine and Michael are saying with out even listening to my aspect. Y’all have heard from Kristine and Michael and what they’ve stated. However it’s essential to hear each side in an effort to know what occurred.”
