Orphan Natalia Grace Denies Attempting to Poison Adoptive Mom, Holding Mother and father at Knifepoint

Grace first made headlines after the household who adopted her modified her birthdate to make her considerably older, earlier than putting her in her personal condo. Mother and father Michael and Kristine Barnett — who did not consider Natalia was really a baby and was as a substitute a girl in her 20s out to kill them and their youngsters — had been later arrested for neglect, however cleared of the costs.

Within the new ID docuseries The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks — which TooFab has screened forward of its premiere — the lady on the middle of all of it denies allegations she tried to homicide the Barnetts.

Michael and Kristine beforehand accused Natalia of placing Pledge into Kristine’s espresso after her adoptive mom left the room whereas they had been doing the dishes collectively. Kristine stated she took a sip of the beverage when she returned and tasted the cleaning soap. When requested why she did it, they claimed Natalia instructed her, “As a result of I wish to kill you.”

“It isn’t true. None of it was true,” Natalia says adamantly within the docuseries. “At this level, Kristine was beating me for months and everybody thinks I am a loopy particular person attempting to pour one thing in her espresso … that is not who I’m.”

She then shared her aspect of the story.

“I used to be serving to Kristine clear up the kitchen and she or he had this desk cleaner and she or he was spraying it on the desk and I used to be serving to her wipe it down. She walked out for a second, I seen a spot that wanted some extra, I scooted her espresso away, sprayed it and as I used to be wiping desk off, [Kristine] stated, ‘What did you spray in my espresso!”

Natalia stated she instructed her she hadn’t finished something and there was “nothing flawed” with the espresso, which she claims Kristine then poured into the sink, earlier than refilling it and grabbing her digicam.

“She actually grabbed my hand, made me spray it within the espresso. I feel Kristine tried to create that video to have some form of proof that I did one thing that I did not do,” she added. “She staged that entire factor. I am not loopy. I didn’t attempt to poison her.”

Grace additionally reacted to Michael’s claims that, whereas he and Kristine had been asleep in mattress, he opened his eyes and noticed Natalia “standing on the foot of the mattress with a knife in her hand.”

“It is onerous to consider something they are saying, as a result of the whole lot the Barnetts have stated is a lie, from the start, about all of the make consider stuff that they got here up with, that they acquired off a film,” Grace stated in response, referring to the 2009 movie The Orphan.

“It is a lie. For one, their mattress [was as high as her head] … y’all saying I used to be standing on the finish of the mattress? I might barely see over the bedpost that they’d!” she exclaimed. “Second, I ain’t that robust. I am an 8- year-old, 37 pound little lady. If I attempted to stab you, I would not have been capable of do it.”

“I can not bend my fingers to even grip a knife like that,” she added. “I by no means tried to homicide anyone. Like I stated, something that Kristine stated, she copied off The Orphan.”

Earlier within the particular, she reiterated the Orphan copycat claims, saying there are too many similarities to disregard. Within the film, Isabelle Fuhrman performs a 33-year-old Estonian girl with a development dysfunction pretending to be slightly Russian lady, who makes an attempt to kill her adoptive household’s youngsters and mom whereas seducing the daddy.

“Ukrainian lady, Russian lady, test. Orphan, test. All this loopy stuff, standing on the finish of the mattress with a knife, test,” stated Natalia, whereas explaining why she agreed to the brand new docuseries. “That is why I wanna do that. That is why I wanna inform individuals what actually occurred, as a result of I did not get that likelihood.”

The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks will premiere throughout three consecutive nights on ID starting Monday, January 1, airing nightly from 9-11PM ET/PT. See extra protection beneath!