Curiouser and curiouser. The second season of The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks got here to an finish on Wednesday, and left viewers on a very surprising cliffhanger.
Through the surprising finale, Natalia and her former adoptive father Michael had an emotional confrontation that ended with Michael laying the blame on his ex-wife, Kristine, and sobbing for forgiveness — which Natalia ultimately gave.
It was a surprisingly uplifting conclusion to her relationship with a person who brought about her a lot ache all through her childhood.
Within the ultimate act of the season finale, Natalie will get legally adopted by Antwon and Cynthia Mans — her authorized guardians who took her in after she was deserted — and Natalia appears optimistic about her potential and her future.
Nevertheless, the closing minute of the episode threw all the pieces on its head.
The present launched a title card that learn, “Two weeks ago, and six months after Natalia’s adoption, the producers got a shocking phone call.”
Then, an audio recording performed — over an ominous drone shot of Natalia’s neighborhood — that featured Antwon and Cynthia claiming they’d been deceived by Natalia.
“Something ain’t right with Natalia. This girl is tweakin'” Antwon will be heard claiming to producers. “I feel like she’s the enemy in the house. And she said to us, we have held her hostage. Made us look like we’re the enemy.”
“Natalia is stabbing her family in the back over a complete lie,” Cynthia chimes in.
“She’s done other things too, but this was a new low,” Antwon claims. “Natalia does not have emotions for nothing but herself. We’re done. We’re done with her.”
Then, a ultimate title card studying, “Natalia’s story will continue.”
For the uninitiated, in 2010, Michael and Kristine Barnett thought that they had adopted a 6-year-old orphaned woman from Ukraine. Not realizing she had a type of dwarfism referred to as spondyloepiphyseal, the Indiana couple claimed that they turned suspicious that their latest member of the family was not really a baby.
Along with claiming that Natalia confirmed bodily indicators of being a lot older than a child, the Barnetts accused her of making an attempt to hurt them and their youngsters. Through the two years Natalia lived with them, they claimed that she tried to poison Kristine and push Michael into an electrical fence.
Ultimately, believing that she was, in truth, an grownup, that they had her authorized age modified from 6 to 22. By 2013, the Barnett household moved to Canada and left Natalia behind in an condominium in Lafayette, Indiana.
Michael and Kristine — who at the moment are divorced, as of 2014 — have been ultimately charged with abandoning Natalia earlier than Michael was discovered not responsible of three counts of neglect and conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent in 2022, whereas expenses in opposition to Kristine have been dropped in March 2023.
All through the ordeal, questions have been raised in regards to the Barnetts having fabricated their suspicions and Natalia has vehemently denied the accusations that she threatened or tried to hurt her former adoptive household. The Mans claimed — so far — that they’d by no means seen her behave in a regarding method. Clearly, one thing has modified.
So, followers who thought this complete unusual enterprise of orphans, insanity, abandonment, betrayal and misrepresentation was over, they will have an entire new twisted net to unweave.
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