LOS ANGELES – Relatives of actress Chanel Banks, who was reported missing a week ago, acknowledged Friday that she had been found and said they would return donations to a GoFundMe page created to fund search efforts.

The family’s confession came later The actor published his own video on social media He said he was preparing to participate in a television interview Thursday night.

Followed his posts instagram On Wednesday, he insisted he was safe and warned people not to donate to his 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.

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on wednesday, Los Angeles Police Department He stated that the institution was 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.

But as reports began to spread in the media that Banks had been found, Singh took to social media on Wednesday and posted an 8-minute video on Facebook condemning the reports and insisting that his cousin was still missing.

He said a woman in Texas 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 has not been found. Please continue searching 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.”

The GoFundMe page Singh set up to fund search efforts had raised more than $4,100 as of Wednesday morning.

But late Wednesday afternoon, a series of new posts surfaced on Banks’ Instagram page, with the actress saying she had spoken to police and confirmed she was OK.

“I have silently been carrying around the pain of ritual sexual abuse, manipulation, and outright endless torture that I have constantly endured my entire life, ever since I was a defenseless baby, at the hands of my own so-called family who are so ‘concerned’ about where I am now,” the post read.

The posts ended with the author saying that, shortly before the separation, she learned that her parents and her husband’s family were planning to obtain a conservatorship over her to give them “full legal control.”