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Grace first made headlines after the family who adopted her modified her birthdate to make her significantly older, sooner than placing her in her private rental. Dad and mother Michael and Kristine Barnett — who didn’t think about Natalia was actually a toddler and was instead a woman in her 20s out to kill them and their kids — had been later arrested for neglect, nevertheless cleared of the charges.

Coming nostril to nostril with Michael for the first time open air of court docket docket on the model new ID docuseries “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks,” Grace requested him about his partner’s alleged abuse, along with why he didn’t do additional to help her or depart Kristine.

“I want to know why did you undertake me throughout the first place? Why?!” Natalia requested first, with Michael saying that, “for lots of of these questions, there’s not going to be a single reply.” He went on to tell her that they every shared “the an identical monster” in Kristine, as that they had been every “unimaginable victims of an otherworldly type of abuse.”

When she pushed once more, asking why he felt he was a “sufferer” too, he instructed her there was quite a bit “stuff you have no idea” — claiming he was “exceptionally managed, put down, threatened, minimized” and “instructed to be exactly what she wanted me to be” by Kristine. He claimed she threatened to take their sons away from him if he didn’t comply and acknowledged he tried to depart her not lower than ten cases.

She then requested why he married her throughout the first place, with Michael saying that was “a hell of a question.” At the moment, Natalia’s totally different adoptive father, a bishop, interrupted and requested him to not curse — sparking an argument between him and Michael’s lawyer. With that, Michael threw a match, exclaiming how he “TRIED to eradicate that mouth,” sooner than screaming wildly and strolling out of the house shouting, “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!”

“If there was a God, he would let me die! He would have let me die,” he exclaimed, sooner than moving into his automotive and driving off.

It was all very bizarre, nevertheless Michael would attain out to Natalia as soon as extra and ask to take a seat down down and converse as soon as extra. She agreed, first asking why he certainly not left Kristine.

“After 15+ years of being put down and degraded and managed and threatened, I didn’t have any energy the least bit to face as a lot as her. I need I did. I didn’t,” he acknowledged, together with that he wouldn’t even focus on with Kristine by her determine anymore, instead calling her “Evil” or the “Wicked Witch of the South.”

When Natalia requested whether or not or not Michael knew what Kristine allegedly did to her, he acknowledged he knew “some points” and had solely “merely found” totally different claims — saying he was “afraid of what I have no idea” and possibly not moving into specifics. His lawyer defended his generic options, saying he his client wasn’t being “evasive” nevertheless “suffers from PTSD on account of this marriage.”

He went on to say that there was “not loads of dialog” about dropping her off at her private rental when she was allegedly solely a teenager, because of “there was loads of dictating.” Michael moreover refused to answer questions on having Natalia’s age modified, yelling at producers after she requested about it that that that they had agreed it was off-limits sooner than sitting down. “I want to keep away from points that’s more likely to be too emotionally delicate, that’s all,” he added, after getting huffy regarding the question even being requested.

Michael was moreover requested why the family merely didn’t put Natalia once more up for adoption as soon as they realized it wasn’t understanding. He claimed he did have that dialog with Kristine, suggesting they “merely stroll away from this” and was met with a “very, very, very, very stern no.” Theorizing why his partner allegedly didn’t want to hand over Natalia, he acknowledged he believes she wanted the adoration and a spotlight that acquired right here with taking in any person with explicit desires.

“It’s vaguely attainable she observed the adoption as an ‘Aren’t I a terrific particular person, all people? Check out me, I’m so nice, I’m so charitable,’” he acknowledged, choosing his phrases rigorously. “She in distinction herself to Oprah generally,” he added, saying it’s attainable she didn’t want to have to tell anyone why the adoption didn’t work out.

“Do you consider putting a lock on my door?” Natalia then requested, as Michael acknowledged he was instructed to do this by medical docs.

She wanted to know if he “realized Kristine was hitting me” with a belt and “letting the boys hit me” and allowed their son Jacob to “drop me” on the time. He was adamant he didn’t and broke into tears saying his son was “so, so sorry” for what he was “being pressured to do” by his mother — sooner than Natalia, in a confessional, known as out how Michael was “nearly blaming all of the items on Kristine,” no matter her feeling he was nonetheless not lower than partially liable for what she allegedly went by means of.

“How did you’re feeling when Kristine was beating me?” she then requested, as Michael reiterated how Kristine allegedly used their sons as a threat. He acknowledged he tried recorded a lot of the alleged abuse at one stage — hoping she would watch it, see how she appeared and stop — nevertheless claimed Kristine moreover pressured him to reset his cellphone and delete all of the items on it.

Natalia continued to tell Michael about additional of the alleged abuse, claiming Kristine made her positioned on a pink costume and pointed hat and “stand like a gnome” throughout the entrance yard and exposing her to “Sexual stuff” by placing her in an rental alone at such a youthful age. She moreover claimed Kristine put make-up on her and scale back her hair in an attempt to “make me seem like an grownup” — together with that her adoptive mother the took photos of her all carried out up sooner than “sending them to a person, trying to get me positioned on a date.”

“Kristine tried to set me up with a person as soon as I used to be 7-years-old. With a grown man. What if the person raped me? He could have did one thing, he could have kidnapped me, he could have murdered me,” she added, as Michael acknowledged he solely came across about that declare “three or 4 weeks up to now,” in all probability after it aired as part of the other Natalia Grace explicit earlier this yr.

TooFab has solely seen 5 of the six episodes of the docuseries, though the dialog between Natalia and Michael will proceed in Half 6.

The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks will premiere all through three consecutive nights on ID beginning Monday, January 1, airing nightly from 9-11PM ET/PT. See additional safety beneath!