Natalia Grace Confronts Her Father and Accused Abuser in New Episodes of ID's “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace” (Exclusive)

Natalia Grace was an orphan from the Ukraine when she was adopted by Michael and Kristine Barnett

Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian orphan accused by her adoptive American parents of trying to kill them, confronts her father in an upcoming docuseries on ID.

The sit-down meeting between Natalia and her adoptive father, Michael Barnett, represented the first time the two have seen each other face to face outside of a courtroom in years.

“Why are we here Michael?,” asked Natalia in the six-part docuseries, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks, premiering across three consecutive nights on ID beginning Monday, Jan. 1, airing nightly from 9-11 p.m. ET/PT. (An exclusive clip of the confrontation is shown below.)

“Why are we here?,” responded Michael. “If you're talking philosophically...”

“No, I want to know — why did you adopt me in the first place?,” she asked about her adoption by Michael and his then-wife Kristine Barnett.

“Many of these questions there's not going to be a single answer to,” he told her, before alleging that he was manipulated and mistreated by Kristine, his ex-wife.

“What do you mean by you were a victim?,” Natalia asked.

“This is not easy,” Michael responded. “I had the same monster you did. I was exceptionally controlled and put down and threatened, was minimalized, anything that was who I was was ripped from me and I was guided and instructed to be exactly what she wanted me to be.”

Natalia’s saga with the Barnetts was the subject of last May’s docuseries The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, which featured exclusive interviews with the Barnetts as well as other members of Natalia's adoptive family.

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This new docuseries focuses on "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 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan with a rare genetic disorder, but rather a homicidal adult intent on harming them and their children,” according to an ID press release.

The Indiana couple adopted Natalia from the Ukraine in 2010. After adopting her, Michael and Kristine claimed they became suspicious of her age, leading to accusations that Natalia, who has a form of dwarfism called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, was merely posing as a child — and was really an adult woman with sinister intentions.

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The Barnetts claimed that Natalia tried to harm them and their biological children. Natalia was accused of trying to poison Kristine's coffee and kill her by dragging her towards an electric fence. Natalia was also accused of placing clear thumb tacks on the stairs face up so that they would step on them.

Michael told Good Morning America that doctors allegedly treating Natalia told them "this person is a sociopath. This person is a con artist. You are all in danger."

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In 2012, two years after the Barnetts adopted Natalia, the couple petitioned Marion County Probate Court to have her age legally changed to 22, changing her birth year from 2003 to 1989.

The following year, the couple moved with their three sons to Canada without Natalia, leaving her alone in an apartment in Lafayette.

The Barnetts, who later divorced, were charged with neglect of a dependent. Prosecutors couldn't charge the couple with neglect of a child because of Natalia's court-ordered age change.

Michael was found not guilty of three counts of neglect and conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent in 2022, the Associated Press reported.

In March, charges against Kristine were dropped, according to WTHR.

The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks will premiere across three consecutive nights on ID beginning Monday, Jan. 1, airing nightly from 9-11 p.m. ET/PT.

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