The Ukrainian orphan first made headlines when her adoptive mother and father, Michael and Kristine Barnett, had her age legally modified to make her an grownup — two years after they have been informed she was a 6-year-old lady. Claiming Natalia tried to kill them and their different kids, the Barnetts then positioned her in an condo alone; the 2 have been later arrested for neglect, however cleared of the fees.

A 2023 DNA take a look at later decided Grace was truly a baby on the time she was deserted.

Whereas ID’s The Curious Case of Natalia Grace in 2023 ended with Grace settling in with a brand new household, Antwon and Cynthia Mans, it ended on fairly the cliffhanger — one which’s lastly picked up on within the community’s The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Last Chapter, out January 6 and seven.

“One thing ain’t proper with Natalia. This lady is tweakin’. I really feel like she’s the enemy of the home. And she or he mentioned to us, we’ve got held her hostage, made us appear like we are the enemy,” Antwon Mans was heard saying in a frantic telephone name to producers, positioned six months after they adopted Natalia, within the new episodes, which have been screened by TooFab.

“She’s finished different issues too, however this was a brand new low,” mentioned Antwon. “Natalia doesn’t have feelings for nothing however herself. We’re finished. We’re finished along with her.”

Added Cynthia: “Natalia is stabbing her household within the again, over an entire lie.”

Within the new episodes, the telephone name continues, with the Mans claiming Natalia met a person from the UK on-line who “turned her in opposition to us” — a lot so, that she deliberate to “pack up and go away” and transfer in with him abroad.

“And she or he mentioned we’ve got held her hostage,” provides Antwon, as sequence producer Eric Evangelista calls the decision “very stunning” as a result of they they they already had a “completely satisfied ending” to Natalia’s story. That, clearly, wasn’t the case.

In a confessional, Natalia defined that she met a person named Neil on-line — earlier than including the pair “grew emotions” for one another and he or she simply “opened my coronary heart” to him and it “felt actually good.” Neil does seem within the new episodes, although his identification is hid to maintain him and their relationship hidden from “public scrutiny.”

It is Neil who apparently bought in contact with Vince and Nicole DePaul, one other household with a type of dwarfism who tried to undertake Natalia earlier than the Barnetts. Nicole claimed Neil discovered her on social media, DMed her and claimed she was being “held hostage” and had “no entry to the surface world” and was being stored “like a prisoner” by the Manses.

“I discovered it was Natalia who put him in contact with me … he is extraordinarily nervous about Natalia,” she added.

Neil additionally allegedly reached out to producers, saying she was at risk and wanted assist getting “out of the Manses’ management” — and informed them he known as police, who did not do something. “We do not actually know what to consider at this level,” Evangelista admitted on digital camera.

When producers “rushed” to Tennessee after the telephone name from the Manses, nonetheless, everybody was performing as if nothing was unsuitable.

“We got here to an understanding,” mentioned Antwon as he, Cynthia and Natalia sat down with Evangelista on digital camera. Natalia, in the meantime, mentioned she could be staying at house with them, as Antwon mentioned she “got here to her senses.”

It was Antwon who mentioned Natalia was spending lots of time speaking to a person on-line, trashing her mother and father to him whereas making “lots of false accusations.” He believed the person was brainwashing Natalia, as Cynthia mentioned he “utterly flipped Natalia’s thoughts in opposition to her household” and “satisfied Natalia that what he was saying was proper and we have been unsuitable.”

Cynthia additionally mentioned she thought the person would potential maintain her for “ransom” or visitors her, inflicting them to chop her off from the web.

“I believed I used to be in love, nevertheless it wasn’t proper,” Natalia then mentioned. “I wasn’t pondering clearly and there’s something I need each lady my age and youthful to know … I do know that, particularly at this age, you wish to meet any individual, you wish to be with any individual, however do not try to do stuff by yourself, as a result of it isn’t secure. I actually virtually left house as a result of I believed I used to be in love. I virtually left my household.”

Antwon mentioned she confessed and repented and got here again to her “senses.”

After the interview, Evangelista mentioned the dialog was “loopy,” saying it appeared like Natalia was “very rehearsed” and “very unnatural.”

Regardless of the Mans saying she was minimize off from talking with Neil, Nicole claimed the 2 have been nonetheless messaging one another through the Duo Lingo app — the place Natalia allegedly claimed she was in ache continually however was informed she has to simply reside with it as a substitute of attempting surgical procedure. Neil additionally claimed the Manses — who have been made the payee of her social safety checks — “robbed” her to purchase their very own house.

It is then that Nicole hatched a plan to get Natalia away from the Manses — with Natalia, who was 20 on the time, suggesting she choose her up straight from church, after she excused herself to go to the toilet. The plan would additionally contain Nicole and her daughter, Mackenzie, flying to Tennessee from upstate New York, earlier than renting a automobile to get her.

“It’s very price it,” mentioned Nicole.

“I am scared however there isn’t any different means. COME GET ME. It is HELL, LITERAL HELL,” Natalia allegedly exclaimed to Neil earlier than the escape try.

The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Last Chapter airs in 4 elements — with two episodes of Monday, January 6 and Tuesday, January 7 on ID and streaming on Max.