“Gossip Girl” and “Blue Bloods” actress Chanel Maya Banks confirmed online that she is not missing after her family filed a police report after not hearing from her in two weeks.
Banks, who was found in Texas on Monday, said she had run away from her family to be baptized by the Rev. Robert Clancy. someone who recently preached About “the end times”.
Her pastor drove her to the airport so she could have a “chance to escape,” she wrote in an Instagram post.
“Not only did I meet with the police to make sure I was okay, but I was finally a free man,” the 36-year-old actress wrote.
Banks, whose name has not been released, was reported missing by her mother and cousin earlier this month after a welfare check found her missing from the Playa Vista apartment she shares with her husband. Ta.
her cousin Daniel Tori Shin previously told ABC 7 Eyewitness News She worried that something was wrong when she couldn't reach Banks.
“Not hearing from your cousin for five days is a red flag and a wake-up call,” Singh said. “She never goes more than 48 hours without talking to me or her mother…That girl is like a sister to me.”
However, Banks claimed in her post that she has not spoken to her cousin in “over 15 years.”
“For decades, my family was my mental, physical, and emotional watchdog, giving me no authority over my personality,” she wrote. “I was not allowed to make any life decisions without their approval in any way.”
Banks concluded her post by asking the public not to donate to the GoFundMe set up by her relatives claiming she was missing.
But when she was informed that Banks had been found, her cousin said: told ABC He said it was “fake news” and would continue handing out “missing person” flyers in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Police Department told the Post on Wednesday that authorities had identified the bank in Texas.
Officials said she was not injured and no criminal activity was suspected in her reported disappearance.
It wasn't immediately clear why Banks chose Lone Star State.
