LOS ANGELES (KABC)– Los Angeles actress Chanel Maya Banks, who had been reported missing and not seen by her family since October 30, took to social media Thursday to reassure her fans that she was safe after family members shared doubts about his fate.

“As you can see, I’m alive,” the 36-year-old said in a video posted Thursday on an Instagram account in his name.

Earlier this week, Los Angeles police said Banks, known for her roles on the TV shows “Gossip Girl” and “Blue Bloods,” was unhurt and that no foul play was suspected in her reported disappearance. , adding that the case was closed.

Additionally, messages emerged claiming abuse from her family and that she had voluntarily left “to escape my cage.”

After being informed of the LAPD update, Banks’ cousin Danielle-Tori Singh said it was “fake news” and vowed to continue handing out flyers describing Banks as missing .

At a news conference Friday, Singh said she and her family were happy to know Banks was alive, but Singh believed the actress “is not doing well.”

She also thinks her cousin might be involved in some sort of cult.

“We know how these things go. This isn’t the first time a woman has disappeared in Los Angeles and said, ‘Don’t contact me,’ and the parents lose her and find out they have to hire a private investigator “, says Singh. “Chanel is not the first person to experience this. We know how these things happen. We know she is part of a cult. We know this organized group doesn’t allow her phone because of all this which was written on social media without facial recognition… there are so many holes in this story.”

Banks hasn’t directly responded to these claims, but in an Instagram Story posted Thursday, she told her followers that she would be releasing her “official interview” soon.

“Follow my (YouTube) I will post my official interview…and in the coming days…answers to ALL your questions,” she said.

Singh thanked law enforcement who helped find her cousin, but said she believes Banks “is not doing well.”

“All we wanted from the beginning, and we said it over and over again, was proof of life,” she said. “I’m convinced she’s alive, based on this YouTube video from the church retreat…she’s alive. She may not be well. We don’t know if they’re letting her “We don’t know if she is alive and under constant surveillance, but she has stated in several articles that this retreat is about getting closer to God and not having technology.”

Singh also apologized to Banks’ husband, who she said was not cooperating with the initial investigation. She also said a GoFundMe she created during the search had been frozen.

“I am obviously shaken by what happened, and when I met and saw him and spoke to him on Sunday, November 10, I told him that if it turns out that “he had nothing to do with her disappearance, I will apologise, I am a woman of my word and I am ready to take responsibility for my actions,” she said. “I hope and pray that he can forgive me and our family. But as (family member of missing woman) Obviously the first person you will assume has done something is the husband. I know now that he had nothing to do with any of this and he’s just as much in the dark as we are.”

On Tuesday, Singh told ABC7 that a tip led police to a home in Texas, where a woman came to the door and identified herself as Banks. Police later showed body camera video of the encounter to Banks’ family, according to Singh, who said the woman was not Banks, adding that the woman in the footage did not look like the actress. She was last seen on a FaceTime call. .

Before police announced she had been found, relatives reported that the 36-year-old actress and Playa Vista resident had not been heard from since late last month.

Authorities conducted welfare checks at her home, and her family said she had recently entered the apartment where she had lived with her husband for a year and still found her belongings and dog there.

Singh, who arrived from Toronto to help with the search, said she was very close to her cousin. When a few days passed without hearing from her or being able to contact her, she and other members of her family became concerned.

“Five days of no news from my cousin, those are red flags and alarm bells,” Singh told Eyewitness News earlier this week. “She doesn’t go more than 48 hours without talking to me or her mother. … This girl is more of a big sister to me.”

(The Instagram account under Banks’ name, however, claimed “I haven’t spoken to Danielle in over 15 years let alone every day or 48 hours because they perjured.”)

Banks’ IMDB page lists her appearances on shows including “Blue Bloods,” “Twelve” and “Gossip Girl.” She sometimes acted under the name Chanel Farrell.

Singh said his cousin had moved away from acting in recent years and was concentrating on writing.