Natalia Grace will tell her story in ‘The Curious Case Of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter,’ which airs on January 6. Natalia Grace has denied physically abusing her adoptive parents, Kristine and Michael Barnett. Grace’s family life quickly fell apart with questions about her true age from her adoptive parents, who successfully petitioned in 2012 to alter her birth date from 2003 to 1989, raising her age to 22. The change was seemingly based on evidence including the fact that she hadn’t grown in two years. One year later, Michael and Kristine moved to Canada with their three children, put Grace into her apartment in Lafayette, Indiana, and stopped contacting her.
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In a 2023 docuseries, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, Kristine and Michael accused Grace of hurting them, with claims that she threatened them with knives, terrorized the couple’s youngest son, and allegedly tried to poison Kristine’s coffee. The Barnetts also said professionals told them Natalia was a sociopath and that their family was in danger.
“I feel like I have to defend myself and be like, ‘Do I look like somebody that could push someone twice my size into a fence? Do I look like I could even grip a knife?” she explained, referring to her rare medical condition, which makes it difficult for her to move her fingers.
