The Barnetts eventually brought Natalia to a doctor, who told the couple that she was actually an adult. Photograph: ID’s The Curious Case of Natalia Grace Who the fuck is this person?”Ī photo of Kristine Barnett, left, and Michael Barnett in ID’s The Curious Case of Natalia Grace. Ultimately, as Michael puts it in the show, he, his wife and their sons came to believe: “We are living with a con artist sociopath. In the docuseries, Michael Barnett also asserts that Natalia threatened to stab her new family and even tried to poison Kristine. And they noticed how she spoke English without an accent and couldn’t understand Ukrainian even though she supposedly wasn’t removed from Ukraine until she was five. The Barnetts recalled seeing Natalia menstruate, which in many cases doesn’t happen before the age of 12. Natalia was also noticeably taller, had a more developed physique and used a more extensive vocabulary than a playmate of a similar age who had the same disorder that she had, according to the docuseries. In the new docuseries, Michael Barnett recounts how Kristine – during a trip to Disney World – let out a blood-curdling scream when she noticed “full pubic hair” while bathing their new daughter, who was still supposed to be about five years away from the typical age of puberty for girls. Records suggest the Barnetts – who also had three sons – soon came to doubt the accuracy of Natalia’s listed age. ![]() That was when the Barnetts took on the responsibility of parenting Natalia believing she had been put up for adoption as a six-year-old who was originally from Ukraine with a rare bone growth disorder causing dwarfism. ![]() The dispute at the center of ID’s three-episode The Curious Case of Natalia Grace – which aired from 29 to 31 May and is streaming on Max and Discovery+ – began brewing all the way back in 2010.
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