Dr. Phil FINALLY Gets Answers From Ukrainian Foster Girl Accused Of Being Adult Con Artist — Interview Highlights HERE!

Dr. Phil‘s much-anticipated interview with Natalia Grace Barnett airs nationwide in the US on Thursday afternoon, and judging from the early clips released this morning on YouTube, all we can say is WOW!

As we’ve been reporting, Barnett’s story is maybe the craziest one you’ll read all year — as a young foster child from Ukraine brought to the United States, her adoptive family accused her of actually being an adult and, among other things, trying to kill them!

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As you’ll see throughout the multi-part interview (below), Natalia Grace strongly denies that characterization and defends herself remarkably well. Before you see the whole thing later Thursday on national TV, get an early look at some of the highlights and most memorable moments from the long sit-down…

Get Caught Up

Dr. Phil’s YouTube team first posted a catch-up teaser on the entire story. If you’re new to Natalia Grace Barnett’s saga, you can watch that three-minute recap clip (below):

AND:

All caught up?! Good.

OK, here we go…

Is She A Scammer?

The TV host wasted no time jumping in on what everybody was thinking at the outset of the interview, asking Natalia Grace if she’s actually a con artist, and a 33-year-old woman, rather than a young girl new to America.

“No,” Natalia responded, emphatically. “No, I promise you I am not.”

Watch as the young lady and her newly-found adoptive family respond to some of Dr. Phil’s big questions:

The Knife Incident…

The Barnetts threw a whole lot of accusations at Natalia Grace in their own media interviews in the past, including allegations the girl stood over their bed while they were sleeping with a knife, and how she apparently used to hide knives all over the house.

Natalia strongly disputed all those claims, though, telling Dr. Phil (below):

“She said that I hid knives on top of the fridge, under the fridge, in the cabinets, even on her office desk. I can’t even reach [the top of the fridge], not even with a chair … If I ever went into their room, it was to wake them up, because I was scared of a nightmare or something like that.”

You can see more in the entire segment about her alleged bad behavior with the Barnett fam:

Hmmm…

Living In Her Own Apartment

One of the craziest parts of the entire story is Natalia’s move into her very own apartment — allegedly when she was just EIGHT YEARS OLD!

The girl explained her daily routine (below):

“I was eight years old, almost nine … My landlord would take me to the gas station to get little things that I needed. And the Barnetts would give me food that they didn’t really eat, like canned food and stuff like that. I wasn’t there that long. Maybe about a month and a half.”

Um… WOW!

Her current adoptive family found her there through a mutual friend who was a neighbor at the time, and as you can see in the clip (below), they invited her to stay with them and leave that crazy apartment setting:

We can’t even imagine being asked to live like that!!

How Old Is She, Anyway?

Eventually, Natalia Grace comes clean about exactly how old she is — or, at least, how old she claims to be, as it’s still disputed by the Barnett family. Near the end of the interview, Dr. Phil asks her straight up about her age and birthday, and the girl responds: she’s 16 years old, born on September 4, 2003. Well then!

In the next clip, Natalia opens up more about her actual age, as well as the 30 FAMILIES she was shuttled between when she first came to America, before eventually landing with the Barnett clan and leading to this entire controversy:

Interesting.

Such a wild story! We don’t know what to believe!

Where Natalia Stands Now

When the host pressed the young girl on how much she’s been through here, she responded by acknowledging she just wants the whole thing to be over:

“I just want them to give up on the whole charade. Like, I don’t want them to keep on with this. I just want it to be over. I want them to be able to have their normal lives back after this is all over, and they did their time.”

Ultimately, Natalia Grace (and her current family) all believe the Barnetts need to face some type of consequences for their actions in allegedly abandoning her. Jail time remains a possibility, then, as Natalia herself noted:

“I don’t want them to [go to jail], but with what happened, it’s not right to do that to a child. I don’t want it to happen to anybody. I don’t speak that on anybody. But if it did have to come to that, they should do the responsible thing, do their time, and get it over with and get right with God.”

See more on where the Ukrainian girl stands now in the clip here:

Wow. This is a LOT to go through, without a doubt.

And there you have it, Perezcious readers. Thoughts and reactions on what you’ve seen here??

Like we noted, the full bombshell interview is set to air at 3 p.m. ET today on the Dr. Phil Show… looks like it’s going to be a wild one!

[Image via Dr. Phil Show/YouTube]

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