The exciting announcement was made on Thursday the 17th of November, delighting fans worldwide.
01.06.2023 - 03:15 / etonline.com
, the Investigation Discovery (ID) docuseries recounting the unbelievably true story surrounding Michael Barnett and Kristine Barnett's adoption of an adult who was accused of pretending to be a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan, Natalia Grace is opening up in the all-new two-hour documentary, .«This is my side of the story, and I'm going to say what happened because I never got a chance to say what happened,» Natalia says. Ahead of its premiere later this summer, ET has an exclusive, extended preview at what Natalia has to say about what really happened to her after being adopted by the Barnetts and addresses the allegations the family made against her while she was still living with them. «The things that Kristine and Michael have said that I have done is a lie.
I have never done anything that Kristine and Michael have said that I have done,» Natalia says in the clip, referring to the many allegations the couple has brought against their formerly adopted daughter. In 2010, the Indiana couple thought they had adopted a 6-year-old orphaned girl from Ukraine. Not realizing she had a form of dwarfism called spondyloepiphyseal, the Barnetts became suspicious that their newest family member was not actually a child. In addition to claiming that Natalia showed physical signs of being much older than a toddler, Michael and Kristine Barnett accused her of trying to harm them and their children.
During the two years Natalia lived with them, they claimed that she tried to poison Kristine and push Michael into an electric fence. Eventually believing that she was, in fact, an adult, they had her legal age changed from 6 to 22. And by 2013, the Barnett family moved to Canada while they left Natalia behind in an apartment in Lafayette,
.The exciting announcement was made on Thursday the 17th of November, delighting fans worldwide.
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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.
Natalia Grace Barnett is sharing her side of the story.
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