“Gossip Girl” and “Blue Bloods” actress Chanel Maya Banks took to the Web to substantiate she was by no means lacking after her household filed a police report saying they hadn’t heard from her in two weeks.
Banks, who was present in Texas on Monday, stated that she was operating away from her household to be baptized by Pastor Robert Clancey, who just lately preached concerning the “end times.”
The pastor drove her to the airport so she might take “an opportunity to escape,” she wrote in an Instagram publish.
“I have met with the police and verified that not only am I OK, but I’m finally free,” the 36-year-old actress wrote.
Banks was reported lacking earlier this month by her mom and cousin after a welfare examine discovered she was not on the Playa Vista condo she shares together with her husband, who has not been named.
Her cousin Danielle-Tori Singh beforehand advised ABC 7 Eyewitness Information she feared one thing was flawed after they couldn’t attain Banks.
“Five days without hearing from my cousin is red flags and alarm bells,” Singh stated. “She doesn’t go more than 48 hours without speaking to me or her mom…That girl is more like a big sister to me.”
Banks, nevertheless, claimed in her publish that she has not spoken to her cousin in “over 15 years.”
“For decades my family has been my spiritual, physical, and emotional warden, giving me zero authority of my personage,” she wrote. “I was not allowed to make any decisions in life in any way without their approval.”
Banks concluded her publish by asking folks to not donate to any GoFundMe her family members have arrange claiming she is lacking.
Her cousin, nevertheless, when advised that Banks was discovered, advised ABC it was “fake news” and stated she would proceed handing out “Missing Persons” flyers in Los Angeles.
The LAPD advised The Submit on Wednesday authorities situated Banks in Texas.
She was unhurt and no foul play was suspected in her reported disappearance, authorities stated.
It was not instantly clear why Banks took to the Lone Star State.
