Natalia Grace‘s story is constant to unfold. In ET’s unique, un-aired clip from The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks, Natalia’s dialog along with her former adoptive father, Michael Barnett, continues.
In 2010, Michael and his spouse, Kristine Barnett, thought that they had adopted a 6-year-old orphaned lady from Ukraine. Not realizing she had a type of dwarfism known as spondyloepiphyseal, the Indiana couple claimed that they grew to become suspicious that their latest member of the family was not really a toddler.
The clip begins with Natalia questioning why medical doctors thought she was schizophrenic, which Michael solutions by saying, “You told them you were hearing voices.”
Natalia wonders if Michael is aware of why she stated as a lot, and he notes that, whereas he understands now, he did not on the time.
“At the time, you gotta understand, the only thing I know is I’m coming home and there are a lot of things being said,” he explains. “… You were telling therapists and Kristine and I that you were hearing voices.”
“Again, knowing what I know now I might know where the source of that came from, but you gotta understand, all I know is you are telling me you are hearing voices, they are telling me you are hearing voices, the therapist is saying you are hearing voices, these documents from the stress center that doctors have written out saying you are hearing voices,” Michael continues. “What am I supposed to believe?”
Then, in a confessional, Natalia alleges that, “whenever Kristine would take me to a mental hospital or stress centers or stuff like that, she would always tell me to tell them that you are hearing voices, that you want to hurt yourself, that you want to hurt other people.”
“Me being like 7 years old I’m like, ‘I don’t know what this means but it’s something that my ‘mom’ told me to say,'” Natalia provides of Kristine, who she accused of abuse all through the ID collection. Kristine, who’s now break up from Michael, beforehand denied Natalia’s allegations and known as her former adoptive daughter a “sociopath.”
When the cameras return to Natalia and Michael’s dialog, the previous tells the latter, “Kristine is not my mom.”
“High-five, up top,” Michael, who beforehand known as Kristine “a monster,” responds, earlier than high-fiving Natalia. “There you go.”
When Natalia was dwelling with Michael and Kristine, the then-couple legally modified her age from 6 to 22. The Barnett household then moved to Canada and left Natalia behind in an condo in Lafayette, Indiana.
Michael was discovered not responsible of three counts of neglect and conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent in 2022, whereas expenses towards Kristine, who denied that she deserted Natalia, had been dropped in March 2023.
On the ID collection, by DNA assessments, Natalia’s age was seemingly confirmed to be round 22, suggesting she was round 9 when the Barnetts adopted her.
Afterwards, Natalia was legally adopted by Antwon and Cynthia Mans, the authorized guardians who took her in after the Barnetts.
The closing minute of the episode threw all the things on its head, nonetheless, introducing a title card that learn, “Two weeks ago, and six months after Natalia’s adoption, the producers got a shocking phone call.” Audio then performed, by which Antwon and Cynthia claimed they’d been deceived by Natalia.
A last title card then appeared on display screen, which promised, “Natalia’s story will continue.”
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks is now streaming on Max.
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