Following the release of Elliot Page’s memoir PageBoy, the actor reveals why now was the right time to share his story with the world and elaborates on the chapters where he talks about his childhood and his mother, who grew to support his identity.
29.05.2023 - 23:11 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A six-part documentary will examine the curious case of a 'six-year-old' orphan from Ukraine whose adopted parents Michael Barnett and wife Kristine believed had a rare bone growth disorder. The strange story of Natalia Grace is set to air in a new investigation on Discovery.
Due to air across three consecutive nights, the adoptive parents are set to tell how the girl, who they say was actually a 22-year-old woman "masqueraded as a child with intent to harm them" in shocking claims. Dad Michael claims that he can prove that Natalia is a 22-year-old woman, something that she denies.
According to the Mirror, the American couple were recently acquitted of neglect charges after abandoning her to live alone in an apartment while they moved to Canada. The parents claim that the girl was 22 at the time they left her - despite her calming she was just a child in court.
In 2012, the family successfully petitioned court to legally change their adoptive daughter's birth year from 2003 to 1989, which in turn changed her age from eight to 22. Michael has now spoken out to reveal the tell-tale signs that he claims prove she was not a child like she claims.
In one instance he recalls the day that they adopted Natalia, he says: "We get to the hotel that night, and Kristine’s going to give our brand new daughter a bath, and I hear a shout from the bathroom. This was a, ‘I’m not playing around, come here right now, Michael’ shout."
He then explains how he went into the bathroom to see his wife shocked looking at the girls unclothed body. Michael explains that she "had full pubic hair", with him adding: "And I don’t know what you think. Is that possible? Is that even possible? Who the f**k is this person?"
In another instance, he recalls how his
Following the release of Elliot Page’s memoir PageBoy, the actor reveals why now was the right time to share his story with the world and elaborates on the chapters where he talks about his childhood and his mother, who grew to support his identity.
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, and the follow-up special,, there's been renewed interest in the adoption scandal surrounding Natalia Grace, a woman accused of pretending to be a 6-year-old orphan from Ukraine and her former parents, Michael Barnett and Kristine Barnett. As Grace tells her side of the story, here's what to remember about the subsequent legal drama and where she is now. Before becoming caught up in a media scandal, Grace was believed to be a young child first adopted by the Barnett family in 2010.
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