The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the actress, who appeared as Sawyer Bennett on three episodes of the original Gossip Girl series in 2009, is safe after her family set up a GoFundMe claiming she had disappeared. "She has been located and ...

The missing person case involving actress Chanel Banks took another turn on Wednesday night when the 36-year-old posted on social media, announcing that she is “finally free” from the family that has been urgently searching for her.

Chanel Maya Banks, an actor whose family said she went missing for two weeks, has been found safe, police said.

He’s not willing to help LAPD. He’s not willing to help me or her mom find her. He is removing flyers off of posts and cars,” Chanel Maya Banks’ cousin claimed.

“Five days without hearing from my cousin is red flags and alarm bells,” Banks’ cousin Danielle-Tori Singh told Eyewitness News on Wednesday, November 13. “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.”

UPDATE: Chanel Maya Banks, a 36-year-old Los Angeles actress who in her 20s appeared in Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods and the 2010 Joel Schumacher feature film Twelve starring Chace Crawford and Rory Culkin, has been found safe and unharmed after news accounts spread word that she’d been missing since October 30.

The missing person saga surrounding a “Gossip Girl” actress took yet another stunning turn on Wednesday night, when the subject of a massive search took to social media to proclaim that she is “finally free” from the family that has been frantically looking for her.

Gossip Girl” alum Chanel Banks, who also acted on “Blue Bloods,” has been found safe after she went missing for two weeks and her husband was reportedly uncooperative with

Depending on whom you ask, Chanel Maya Banks is either a missing person who may be in danger or hurt, or she has been located and is safe.

The family of 36-year-old Chanel Banks said the actress remains missing despite authorities saying she's been found safe. "We are in the dark," her cousin Danielle-Tori Singh said. "We aren't quite sure where to go from here.