She gained worldwide consideration when her adoptive household accused her of not being a baby however in reality an grownup with malicious intent. Now, she’s talking out for the primary time together with Natalia Grace’s new mother and father in a brand new documentary collection by ID.

Natalia Grace is a Ukrainian-born woman who gained media consideration on account of a controversial and extensively publicized case. In 2010, she was adopted by an American household, the Barnetts, who due to her subtle language and different behaviors, believed that Natalia had a uncommon type of dwarfism—as a substitute of being a baby, as she and the orphanage claimed, she was an grownup with psychiatric points who deceived them. One explicit account, the Barnetts mentioned, was once they awoke to Natalia standing over them with a knife.

They petitioned to have her age legally modified to 22, based mostly on a bone density check. In 2012 and a yr later, the Barnetts moved to Canada, leaving Natalia behind to fend for herself when she was solely 9 years outdated. In The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks, we’re provided unique entry to Natalia as she shares her story and confronts her former adoptive mother and father Michael and Kristine Barnett’s accusations head-on.

All through six components, Natalia Speaks retraces her adoption saga and the Barnett’s allegations from Natalia’s perspective, providing perception into what actually went on behind closed doorways within the Barnett’s dwelling and the way a lot fact there really is to their declare Natalia was not a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan with a uncommon genetic dysfunction, however relatively a homicidal grownup intent on harming them and their kids. However Natalia Grace’s new mother and father are giving her a loving dwelling.

Natalia Grace’s new mother and father

Natalia Grace’s new mother and father are Antwon and Cynthia Mans, with whom she resides in Indiana. They doc their lives on Instagram @themansfamily11. In November 2019, Cynthia advised Dr. Phil that: “We’ve got different kids. We’ve got a grandson. [Natalia] does nothing however love her siblings and her nephew.”

Cynthia defined how Natalia got here to dwell with them, assembly her on her neighbor’s entrance porch when she was 8 years outdated and dwelling alone after the Barnett’s deserted her. On the time of the Dr. Phil interview, Cynthia mentioned she’d been dwelling with them for six years.

“My buddy known as me and was like, ‘It’s good to come down right here instantly’,” Cynthia recalled, of the day she met Natalia. “She’s telling me she’s 22, however take a look at her, she’s not 22,” figuring Natalia was simply repeating what she’d been advised to say. Natalia confirmed Cynthia her house the place she was dwelling alone. Noting that she barely had any possessions and little meals within the freezer, Cynthia invited Natalia to return over. “I’ve a few children at dwelling, come on down, you may play with them, speak with them. No matter. So she got here to our home and frolicked down there and she or he by no means left. She’s been with us ever since,” Cynthia mentioned.

In her first time talking out since then, Natalia talked concerning the many allegations Kristine and Michael have made towards her. “The issues that Kristine and Michael have mentioned that I’ve achieved is a lie. I’ve by no means achieved something that Kristine and Michael have mentioned that I’ve achieved,” Natalia mentioned. “You’ll be able to ask anyone in my household now. You’ll be able to ask Bishop Antwon and Cynthia Mans that — simply ask them, ‘Has she ever achieved something?’ They may let you know who I actually am. They’re not going to lie and neither am I.”

She continued: “It’s irritating. It’s very irritating to listen to the whole lot that’s being mentioned from Kristine and Michael. And since 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 things that by no means really occurred from Kristine and Michael,” she goes on to say. “I’m like, ‘It’s stunning and it’s irritating.’ As a result of that’s not even true. And individuals are believing what Kristine and Michael are saying with out even listening to my facet.”