Who is part of Natalia Grace’s new family? The subject of the docuseries feels ‘free’ after leaving Manses

The curious case of Natalia Grace becomes more and more curious with him ID New season of the docuseries — subtitled The final chapter and transmitting in max. – which follows Grace’s fight with her adoptive parents, Antwon and Cynthia Mans. These days, however, Natalia Grace lives with another family and says she feels “free” in her new environment.

As curious case Viewers know that Grace was adopted by Michael and Kristine Barnett in 2010. But the Barnetts accused Grace, a native of Ukraine who has congenital spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, of posing as a child and trying to harm her family.

Then came the Mans, who began caring for Grace in 2013 and legally adopted her in 2023. But in the docuseries, witnesses allege that Antwon and Cynthia Mans abused Grace, as People information. (The Mans did not respond to the magazine’s request for comment, and Grace declined to confirm or deny the abuse allegations.) Now, however, Grace has a new home with another family.

Natalia Grace now lives with the DePaul family.

After a decade with the Mans, Grace reached out to her friend Nicole DePaul, as People information.

Nicole, 49, and her husband Vince DePaul, 51, tried to adopt Grace in 2009, but the adoption didn’t work out, according to Inside edition. (Nicole and Vince, who have a form of dwarfism similar to Grace’s, showed Inside edition stacks of documents indicating Grace’s birth year was 2003.)

After months of conspiracy, the DePauls took Grace from las Manses, according to People. Nicole and her daughter Mackenzie, 19, drove from upstate New York and picked up Grace outside a church in Nashville, Tennessee.

“I saw the (DePauls) pull up and Mack jumped, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, she’s really here,’” Grace told the magazine. “My heart started pounding. I was terrified. “I was completely terrified.”

Grace’s time with the DePauls was “turbulent” at first.

nicole said People that Grace’s time in the house was “disturbed” at first, adding that the Mans called Grace over and over again to try to “drive her back.”

Additionally, the DePauls were “walking the fine line of not doing too much” after Grace’s time with the Mans, Nicole said. “Look, she just came from this house that was basically ruled by a dictator, so I didn’t want to tell her what to do,” he explained.

Then there was the time Grace secretly recorded the DePauls at her house, but Nicole explained to her People that Grace has been diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, or RAD.

“He probably did weird things in the past? Yes,” admitted Nicole. “(But) when you take in a child, you take them as your own. You don’t just get rid of them when they don’t fit your puzzle.”

Grace feels “free” in her life with the DePauls.

These days, Grace is enjoying her relationship with a boyfriend she met on Facebook, studying for her GED in hopes of becoming a teacher, learning to drive, listening to Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus, undergoing therapy, and preparing for upcoming surgeries. People information.

“It’s a blessing to be alive today because looking back at when I was 7, I should have been dead,” Grace told the magazine. “Learning everything I have about how to live with my dwarfism has been a great experience. I love it. I mean, of course, I still miss my brothers and all that. But I love it. “I feel free.”

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