On Thursday, Investigation Discovery confirmed they are following up their six-part docuseries with new documentary featuring an interview with Natalia Grace herself. “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks” will be the first time she’s addressed her family’s claims in public since the neglect charges against her parents were thrown out.
A quick refresher on the case: Michael and Kristina Barnett claimed Natalia — who was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia — came to them through an adoption agency in 2010 and were told she was six at the time. But they began to doubt her age and, in June 2012, Marion County Superior Court agreed to legally change the girl’s birth record to indicate she was born in 1989 and not 2003. Shortly after, the Barnetts set her up with her own apartment, before they were arrested and charged for neglect in 2019.
Michael was cleared of all four neglect charges he was facing on October 27, 2022, while the charges against Kristine were dismissed in March 2023. In public, the divorced duo both claimed that Natalia was not a child and was actually a woman in her 20s out to kill them and their children.
“Because I already don’t know who I am and I wanna know who I am, what happened to me, but I’m hearing all this stuff that never actually happened from Kristine and Michael and I’m just like, it’s shocking and it’s frustrating,” she explains, “because that’s not true and people are believing what Kristine and Michael are saying without even hearing my side.”
“This is my side of the story and I’m gonna say what happened because I never got a chance to say what happened,” she adds. “You all have heard Kristine and Michael and what they have said, but you need to hear both sides in order to know what really happened.”
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