Where are Natalia Grace’s former adoptive parents, the Barnetts and Manses, now?

Natalia Grace has been adopted by several families since she left Ukraine for the United States as a child in 2008.

Born in 2003, the orphan was adopted by Dyan and Gary Ciccone in 2008 and immigrated to New Hampshire, where the couple lived. But according to court documents, her new adoptive parents soon relinquished parental rights because of her disruptive behavior.

Natalia was eventually adopted in 2010 by the Barnett family, which included Kristine and Michael Barnett and their three sons. Soon, the Barnetts became wary of Natalia, who they believed to be older than she said she was due to markers such as pubic hair and having adult teeth. They successfully petitioned an Indiana court to “age” her by legally changing her year of birth from 2003 to 1989.

The Barnetts also accused Natalia of being a “sociopath” and trying to kill members of their family. In 2013, they moved her into apartments in Westfield and Lafayette, Ind., before moving themselves to Canada and cutting off contact with her.

After a month of residence, Natalia befriended Cynthia Mans, who quickly invited her to live with her and her husband, Christian pastor Antwon Mans, and their 10 children. In 2023, the family legally adopted her – but later that year, Natalia’s conflicts with them came to a head, leading her to run away in the middle of the night.

Now she lives with the DePaul family, who had originally wanted to adopt her when she was a child. Her story continues in the new season of her documentary series, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter, sent on ID and Max on January 6 and 7.

So what happened to Natalia Grace’s former adoptive parents after she left their home? Here’s everything to know about where the Barnetts and Manses are now.

Who are the Barnetts?

Kristine and Michael were parents to three sons – Jacob, Wesley and Ethan – before Natalia joined their family in 2010. The family lived in Indiana with their four children until they moved to Canada in 2013, where Jacob, who has autism and is mathematician and scientific prodigy, could pursue graduate studies in physics.

During the three years Natalia spent with the family, the Barnetts claimed she was an adult posing as a child and had tried to harm them and their biological children. PEOPLE previously reported that Kristine accused Natalia of trying to poison her and drag her toward an electric fence.

In October 2019, Michael told Good Morning America that doctors who allegedly treated Natalia told them “this person is a sociopath. This person is a fraud. You are all in danger.”

Why did the Barnetts leave Natalia Grace in her own apartment?

In 2013, before moving to Canada, the Barnetts got Natalia — whose legal age was changed to 22 at the time — her own apartment in Lafayette, Ind., after allegedly experiencing behavioral problems with her, including an incident where she allegedly placed thumbtacks on the stairs face up so they would step on them.

However, Natalia denies this ever happened and detailed struggles to live on her own as a child — whose birth date, after medical tests and DNA analysis, was legally restored to 2003 — in a rare interview with PEOPLE in January 2025.

“I really didn’t like being the girl who aged again and lived in her own apartment,” she said. “I didn’t understand why I was alone. I just knew I had this instinct in me to push and survive. All I was told was, ‘You’re 22 now. When someone asks you what your age is, you say you’re 22 and that you tried to murder your family.’ I was taught to lie.”

In 2019, Kristine and Michael were charged with neglecting a relative. But in 2022, Michael was found innocent, per Associated Pressand a year later the charges against Kristine were dropped, WTHR reported at the time.

Where are the Barnetts now?

Michael filed for divorce from Kristine in February 2014, per Journal & Courier. Five years later, according to the outlet, Kristine’s address was listed in Bradenton, Fla.

In the same year that she and Michael divorced, Kristine published a book, The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autismabout her son’s life experience and how he excelled in school.

While the two have primarily lived out of the limelight, Michael joined Natalia in the first season of her documentary series The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks in January 2024. During one of the episodes, Natalia accused Kristine of abusing her and detailed examples of when her former adoptive mother would pepper spray her and beat her with a belt. Michael claimed that he was also mistreated by Kristine.

“This is not easy,” he said on the show. “I had the same monster you had. I was unusually controlled and put down and threatened, was minimized, everything that I was was ripped from me and I was guided and instructed to be exactly what she wanted me to be.”

While Kristine did not appear on the show, she wrote in a long, since-deleted Facebook post that the allegations against her “were just false.”

“If there had been abuse of Natalia or evidence of it, I would have been found guilty of it and I would be in prison,” she wrote.

“I think Natalia takes advantage of that sympathy to manipulate people,” Kristine continued. “I believe this because I sat through several hospital visits and therapy sessions trying to understand and help Natalia, thinking that maybe we could get to the root of the problem. In the end, I learned that she is a sociopath.”

She ended her post by saying that she was not Natalia and Michael’s “monster” as he claimed.

Who is Manse?

A month after the Barnetts left Natalia in her apartment, she befriended Cynthia, who invited her into her home with her husband Antwon a few days after first meeting.

In 2016, the couple applied to become her legal guardians, but a hearing was required to determine whether Natalia was a legal adult. Although a judge declared her an adult, she continued to live with the Manses.

Throughout the Barnetts’ legal battle, the Manses stood by Natalia, and Cynthia testified on her behalf in Michael’s trial, insisting that she never exhibited problematic behavior in their home.

The family was able to legally adopt her in 2023. However, when her docu-series aired in January 2024, there were tensions between the Manses and Natalia.

“There’s something wrong with Natalia,” Antwon said in a call to the show’s producers. “This girl is adjusting. I feel like she’s the enemy in the house.”

“Natalia is stabbing her family in the back over a complete lie!” Cynthia added.

Why did Natalia leave Grace Manses?

Three days before Christmas in 2023, Natalia – with the help of her boyfriend Neil – left the Manses home in Nashville in the middle of the night. She later told PEOPLE that she and the family clashed over her independence and romantic life, citing an incident where Antwon found sexually explicit texts on her phone to Neil and took her phone away and forbade her from having contact with him.

Neil had contacted the DePaul family – who had previously wanted to adopt Natalia – to help her escape. Now Natalia lives with them in their home in upstate New York.

“At first it was bumpy because the men were still involved. They kept calling Natalia and trying to drive her back in,” Nicole DePaul, the matriarch of the family, told PEOPLE. “It was just this constant thing where we walked a fine line of not doing too much. Look, she just came from this house that was basically run by a dictator, so I wasn’t going to tell her what to do .”

Where is the Mans family now?

In the final season of Natalia’s docuseries, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter, Natalia gave viewers a look into her life with the DePauls. But her relationship with Manses is still unclear.

In the documentary, Natalia spoke positively of the Manses, with Nicole expressing surprise that the orphan wanted Cynthia to remain the “payee” of her disability funds.

When producers asked Natalia about allegations against Manses of abusing her and their children, she declined to comment. “I don’t want to talk about that,” she said.