Relatives of the Playa Vista actress, who starred in several episodes of “Gossip Girl” and “Blue Bloods” and was reported missing a week ago, acknowledged Friday that she had been found and said they would return donations made to a GoFundMe page set up for charity. Fund a search effort.

The family’s admission came after 36-year-old actress Chanel Maya Banks posted a video on social media on Thursday night in which she said she was preparing to participate in a television interview.

following this He posted on Instagram on Wednesday insisting he was safe and we warn people not to donate to the GoFundMe page.

Banks was reported missing on November 8. A series of welfare checks were conducted at Banks’ home on Oct. 30, according to a GoFundMe page set up by her family, Banks’ cousin Danielle-Tori Singh. November 7-8, but was nowhere to be found.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that the bank had been notified by authorities in Texas that Banks was safe. An LAPD representative told City News Service that no foul play was involved and the case was classified as closed.

However, when reports of Banks’ presence began to spread in the media, Singh took to social media on Wednesday to say: Posting an 8-minute video on Facebook He condemned the reports and insisted his cousin was still missing.

He said a woman was located in Texas and apparently had a “10-year-old, expired New York City driver’s license” with Banks’ name on it. However, Singh said the woman was not his cousin.

“Please don’t stop looking for my cousin,” he said in the video. “… My cousin could not be found. Please keep looking for him.”

Singh said he had seen video and audio from the Texas woman’s body camera footage and insisted she was not Banks. He said the woman in the video “couldn’t answer a personal question about either our family or herself.”