After a stunning array of twists and turns, together with interviews with Natalia and her adoptive father, Michael Barnett, her delivery 12 months was confirmed as 2003 and he or she appeared on the verge of lastly getting a cheerful ending and a household that might be there for her…

Till she wasn’t.

The unique run of the ID collection ended with hints that issues have been already beginning to go unhealthy with the Mans household, who’d taken Natalia in after the Barnetts had dumped her to stay on her personal in an condominium at 8 years previous, after legally altering her delivery 12 months from 2003 to 1989, making her legally 22 years previous — however biologically nonetheless solely eight.

Now, Natalia is again to wrap up her story in The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Remaining Chapter, airing on back-to-back nights, January 6 and seven, on ID.

Forward of the docuseries premiere, in an interview unique to Individuals, the 21-year-old opened up concerning the psychological and emotional toll of her journey up to now, in addition to what life was like with each the Barnetts and the Mans, earlier than waiting for her future now that she’s really an grownup.

Whereas Natalia has been the star of her personal docuseries, and is again to proceed telling her story, she informed Individuals that she’s really fairly uncomfortable on digicam, with the outlet detailing an incident the place she had an emotional breakdown whereas filming.

In keeping with the outlet, after shouting at everybody to “get out,” with Natalia’s face reportedly registering “anxiousness to uncooked worry and finally panic,” she finally emerged calm and able to transfer ahead. “I’ve nervousness all the best way to the roof,” she informed Individuals in rationalization.

“I really don’t love being filmed or being on a TV present. I am extra of a quiet woman who enjoys sitting on a porch swing with a guide and a sizzling chocolate or espresso within the morning,” she added.

Natalia has been recognized with reactive attachment dysfunction, a conduct situation frequent for youngsters who’ve hung out in an orphanage, in addition to nervousness, ADHD and PTSD.

For Natalia, loads of her triggers need to do with the tumultuous life she’s led since her delivery in Ukraine to a mom who gave her up as a result of her dwarfism. She was first adopted by Dyan and Gary Ciccone in 2008 at 5 years previous, however they rapidly gave up parental rights, citing her disruptive conduct.

It was then that her story with the Barnetts’ started, after the Indiana couple adopted her in 2010.

Two years later, suspicious that she’d been mendacity about her precise age — as a result of her having grownup tooth, pubic hair, and experiencing menstruation — and accusing her of trying to kill mother Kristine Barnett, they’d her legally re-aged right into a 22-year-old grownup in courtroom after which in 2013, they set her up in an condominium to stay on her personal.

Kristine known as Natalia a violent “sociopath” and alleged that her adoptive daughter had tried to poison her espresso and drag her towards an electrical fence. The couple even stated they awoke one time to Natalia looming over them with a knife, amongst different allegations of sexual deviance and violence.

Within the new season of the present, Natalia counters these with allegations in opposition to Kristine, claiming her adoptive mom hit her with a belt, pepper-sprayed her, and overdosed her on medicines on function. She additionally denies ever trying to harm the Barnetts.

“I really feel like I’ve to defend myself and be like, ‘Do I seem like anyone that would push somebody twice my measurement right into a fence? Do I seem like I might even grip a knife?’” she argues within the new episodes.

In January 2024, Kristine denied that Natalia was ever abused in a Fb publish, during which she wrote, “I sat by quite a few hospital visits and remedy visits attempting to know and assist Natalia and considering we’d be capable of discover the foundation of the problem. In the long run I realized she is a sociopath.”

Michael informed Good Morning America that the medical doctors treating Natalia informed the couple “this individual is a sociopath. This individual is a con artist. You might be all in peril.”

As Natalia’s story first made its means into the media, the general public did not know what to consider. “There have been lots of people saying, ‘You are faux. You are a liar. You are a pedophile.’ I am additionally identified for the little woman that was helpless and was crushed and starved and all that,” Natalia informed Individuals.

“That is not who I’m,” she stated, explaining why she’s agreed to inform her story in such a public discussion board by including, “However that appears to be the one factor that folks know — and that is why it hurts me quite a bit.”

Talking about residing on her personal at eight years previous in that second-story condominium, Natalia talked about how her bodily incapacity made it troublesome to achieve issues within the condominium, saying she did not like residing on her personal and having to inform individuals she was 22 years previous.

“I did not perceive why I used to be alone. I simply knew I had this intuition in me to push and survive,” she stated. “All I used to be informed was, ‘You are 22 now. Every time anyone asks you what your age is, you say you are 22 and also you tried to homicide your loved ones.’ I used to be taught to lie.”

Prosecutors in Tippecanoe County, Indiana did finally cost the Barnetts with neglecting a dependent, however Michael was discovered not responsible by a jury in 2022, and the costs in opposition to Kristine have been finally dropped the subsequent 12 months.

Natalia first met the Mans whereas residing on her personal within the condominium the Barnetts arrange for her. After just a few days of speaking, Cynthia Mans invited Natalia to maneuver in together with her and her husband, Antwon Mans, a pastor, and their 10 kids.

In 2023, Natalia’s authorized age was restored to 2003 after intensive medical assessments and DNA evaluation, and he or she was formally adopted into the Mans household. There, she stated she was invited to affix their faith and helped elevate their kids.

“I realized be a mom,” Natalia stated of her time with the Mans, which included the whole lot from caring for infants to serving to with homework.

In keeping with Natalia, although, her independence and romantic life as a 20-year-old rapidly turned a supply of rivalry in her new residence.

In keeping with Natalia, Antwon found her social media communications with a person named Neil and allegedly started to blackmail her with sexually specific movies and pictures he’d stolen. She additionally stated he took her cellphone and refused to permit them to remain involved.

Within the new episodes, witnesses reported seeing the Manses assault Natalia with a belt, slap her throughout the face, and even lock her in her room. Individuals didn’t obtain a response from the Manses or their attorneys with regard to those allegations.

After a decade, Natalia deliberate her escape from the Mans’ residence with the help of UK-based boyfriend Neil and Vince and Nicole DePaul, who’re additionally little individuals and had as soon as tried to undertake her solely to be turned down.

On December 22, 2023, Nicole drove from upstate New York all the best way to Nashville, the place she picked up Natalia at a church the place the Manses had moved. Natalia stated she was so anxious about leaving, she “needed to textual content my mother to let her know I wasn’t kidnapped or useless.”

“It was an emotional time. I needed to unfold my wings,” she added.

Natalia remains to be residing with the DePauls and thriving, with the couple emphasizing that taking in a toddler consists of that entire little one. “Did she in all probability do bizarre issues prior to now? Yeah,” Nicole says within the docuseries. “Whenever you soak up a toddler, you are taking that little one as your individual. You don’t simply eliminate them once they don’t match into your puzzle.”

“It has been a giant studying curve for me,” Natalia informed Individuals of her tumultuous life up to now these first 21 years. “For essentially the most half, I’ve made peace. It’s positively a blessing to be alive at the moment. And there is nothing I can do to vary the previous.”

Individuals experiences that Natalia is now learning for her GED — she was beforehand homeschooled — with plans to develop into a grade faculty trainer.

For the primary time in her life, the cash she’s incomes goes into an account together with her identify on it (some within the present allege the Mans had been stealing her cash for years). She can also be studying to drive, with the hopes of with the ability to stay absolutely unbiased sooner or later.

“I am a lady who loves children and needs to get married and have kids,” she stated, sharing that she and Neil just lately met for the primary time and that they’ve expressed their love for each other, however she’s taking it sluggish.

“One in every of my greatest issues will not be making guarantees I am unable to preserve,” she stated. “I’ve had too many guarantees which have been damaged. I am simply prepared to maneuver on.”

Natalia additionally shared that she sipped alcohol for the primary time on her twenty first birthday in September and just lately bought her seventh tattoo, which interprets from Ukrainian as, “Belief No One.” She says it is a becoming motto for her story.

The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Remaining Chapter airs January 6 and seven on ID.