‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Blue Bloods’ alum Chanel Maya Banks has spoken out after being reported missing
Gossip Girl and Blue Bloods actress Chanel Maya Banks broke her silence after she was reported missing by her family.
“My name is Chanel Banks I’m a 36-year-old American nobody, and for my entire life I have been silently carrying the pain of the ritual … abuse, manipulation, and outright endless torment I’ve endured continuously since I was a defenseless baby, at the hands of my own so-called family, who are all so very concerned about my current whereabouts,” Banks, 36, told True Crime News in a Wednesday, November 13, statement. “I have met with the police and verified that not only am I OK, but I’m finally free.”
She added, “They say, once you’re free in Christ Jesus, you’re free indeed, so I told my husband six days ago I was going to get baptized by one of my favorite pastors Pastor Robert Clancy. He drove me to the airport and then I was off for a week … but I also saw it as an opportunity to escape my cage.”
In addition to seeking freedom, Banks also wants “justice.”
“I’m releasing a clarion call to those in high places who still have a soul and want to keep it in such a time as this. Reach out,” she said. “Help the cause, help me. I will never allow myself to be silenced ever again, least of all by my abusers. … For 36 crushing years, I’ve had to endure the most abominable abuses.”
Banks’ mother and cousin filed a missing person’s report earlier this month after a welfare check revealed that she wasn’t home in Los Angeles.
“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.
