‘Good American Family’ arouses interest in Natalia Grace Fall
‘Good American Family’ arouses interest in Natalia Grace Fall
The documentation series "The Curious Case of Natalia Grace" has conquered the audience in a storm and stimulated several sequels. Now a new drama series is reminiscent of their history.
new drama series on Hulu
The series "Good American Family" on Hulu, with Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass and Imogen Faith Reid in the leading roles, is described as inspired by various perspectives, threats, interpretations and accusations. The plot revolves around a couple who adopted a child with small growth called Natalia Grace. The adopting mother (played by Pompeo) begins to assume that Natalia is an adult who pretends to be a child.
The real story of Natalia Grace
This topic is likely to be familiar with the viewers of "The Curious Case of Natalia Grace", in which the bizarre history of an American couple is told, which claims that the girl she adopted in 2010 from Ukraine is actually an adult who appeared as a child and whose life confused them.
background of adoption
The two adopting parents, the Barnets, were an apparently happy couple with three sons when they decided to expand their family by adopting a 6-year-old girl from Ukraine. Natalia suffers from a rare form of small growth called Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Congenita. The Barnetts hoped that she would become a loving member of her family, but soon had doubts about her actual age.
the allegations and their course
The family claimed that instead of the young child they adopted, they lived with a "sociopathic" adult. Michael Barnett said in "The Curious Case of Natalia Grace": "She tried to poison and kill my wife." They stated several incidents in which Natalia had tried to harm them and their other children. Kristine Barnett, the mother, did not take part in the original documentary.
In 2012, parents managed to have the legal age of Natalia changed from eight to 22 years. They pulled them out of the family house and their own apartment. After an examination, the barnets, which were now divorced, were charged for child welfare. However, Michael Barnett 2022 The indictment against his ex-wife was dropped the following year.
Current developments
Eventually was taken in Natalia Grace by Antwon and Cynthia Mans, a couple who was friends with her, and she said what in her opinion really happened. Natalia rejected the allegations of her adoptive parents and emphasized that she was a child when she was adopted.
The Mans applied for the guardianship for Natalia Grace in 2016, and Antwon Mans was at her side during the shooting of "The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks" when she confronted Michael Barnett. "Why did you adopt me at all?" She asked Barnett, who replied that "there will be no individual answer to many of these questions." The mans adopted them in 2023, but the hoped -for fairy tale ended was different than expected.
surprising twists
In "The Final Chapter", the producers of the series received a surprising call from the mans. "Something is wrong with Natalia," Antwon Mans told the producer. "This girl ticks." It turned out that in several points she got together with the mans, including her long -distance relationship with a man in the United Kingdom.
The series shows how Natalia Grace "breaks out" to live with Nicole and Vince Depaul, a couple who had tried to adopt them years earlier. In January 2025 Similar to an interview Natalia Grace explained that she was preparing to live independently by learning to learn to drive and learn for her ged. She said she learned from her experience and found peace with her past.
"It was a big learning process for me. I largely made peace. It is definitely a blessing to be alive today," she said. "There is nothing I can do to change the past." "Good American Family" celebrates its premiere on March 19th.
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