Natalie Grant was among celebrity victims of a vicious hoax. A crazed woman successfully tricked at least a dozen of stars, convincing them that they were communicating with a child dying of cancer. Amazingly a family used in the plot to trick Grant had more in common with the singer than the deception.

Among those pranked was Country Music star Brad Paisley, actress Melissa Gilbert and Christian Gospel singer Grant. The women assumed the identity of real children who had passed away, and the supposed parents of the dying children. The fraudster went as far as sending celebrities photos of children who in fact had cancer and had already passed away.

What the hoaxer did not know was the very same song used as a trick to talk to Grant, was the song that helped the family of the little girl used in the scheme against Grant.

Friday, Grant surprised the Skees family with a private performance for them of her song "Held." Grant met the little girl Ellie's real parents, John and Sarah Skees and Ellie's younger brother Ethan. After ABC News' investigation led producers to realize that the Skees' tragic story had been used to hoax Grant, they arranged to bring them to a concert Grant was playing so they could meet the singer.

"For me such a sweet thing coming out of something that was so negative," Grant told ABC News. "When you get to meet somebody that's been helped by your music, it's the reason that I make music."

When she learned of the gambit, she was devastated, but she admitted she had been overwhelming doubt all along:

"I never could quite shake that feeling that in the back of my head that something about it just didn't sound like a real little girl," Grant said. "I struggled with guilt, thinking how can you even think that."

"I think after we have witnessed a day like today and all that we've been through, there is nothing negative to be spun about what happened," Elli's father John Skees said after the meeting. "I can only see positive."

The meeting helped Grant also find peace with the whole ploy as well.

"I still did cry tears for a girl who did die," she said. "It just wasn't the girl I thought it was."