A "child" who turned out to be a 22-year-old woman confronted her adoptive dad in a new documentary.
Natalia Grace hit headlines this year after her unbelievable story was spotlighted in a docuseries titled The Curious Case of Natalia Grace by Investigation Discovery.
The film followed a couple named Michael and Kristine Barnett who adopted what they believed to be a six-year-old girl from Ukraine back in 2010.
However, the pair became suspicious of their daughter's age and claimed that Natalie, who has a form of dwarfism called spondyloepiphyseal, was an adult woman with wicked intentions.
The couple alleged that Natalia wanted to harm them and their biological children, accusing her of trying to poison Kristine's coffee and kill her by dragging her towards an electric fence and placing clear thumbtacks on the stairs face up so that they would step on them, per Yahoo.
In 2012 - two years after the girl was adopted by the Barnetts - the pair petitioned Marion County Probate Court to change her age legally to 22, which would then alter her birth year from 2003 to 1989, as reported by People magazine.
The following year, the couple - who are now divorced - moved to Canada with their three biological children, and left Natalia alone in an apartment in Lafayette.
According to ET Online, they were charged with neglect of a dependent before Michael was found not guilty of three counts of neglect and conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent in 2022, while charges against Kristine were dropped in March 2023.
As her story became a media sensation, the 22-year-old is now sharing her side of the story in Investigation Discovery's new six-part docuseries, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks.
Watch the Natalia Speaks trailer below:The upcoming documentary will retrace Natalia's "adoption saga and the Barnetts' allegations from Natalia’s perspective, offering insight into what really went on behind closed doors in the Barnetts' home and how much truth there actually is to their claim Natalia was not a six-year-old Ukrainian orphan with a rare genetic disorder, but rather a homicidal adult intent on harming them and their children," per a press release.
The trailer shared by Investigation Discovery shows Natalia confronting her former adoptive father Michael. The pair sit face-to-face, with Natalia telling him: "I was never in [your and ex-wife Kristine's] room with a knife," to which Michael shrugged and responded: "I know what I saw."
Another preview shared by Entertainment Tonight revealed that the pair had another face-to-face interview, but this time things got heated as at one point Michael is seen tearing off his mic, and telling the producers: "I tried," before storming out of the house in tears, exclaiming: "Leave me alone!"
"In every lie is a hidden truth, but you’ve gotta dig enough to be able to see it," Natalia says in the docuseries trailer. "They’re not going to get away with this. This is my side of the story," she said, before adding: "Do I look like a monster to you?”
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks will premiere across three consecutive nights on ID beginning Monday, January 1.
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