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 Maya Banks has been found after mysteriously vanishing for two weeks, ending a frantic search that had family, friends, and fans on edge. TMZ broke the news on Wednesday, November 13, reporting that the 36-year-old Hollywood actress ...

“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.

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

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

Chanel Maya Banks, a Los Angeles actress whose family said she went missing for two weeks, has been found safe in Texas, police said.

An actress who had a recurring role in Gossip Girl has gone missing, according to her family. Chanel Maya Banks, 36, who lives in Playa Vista, a suburb of Los Angeles, has not had contact with her family since the end of October,

Police say a 36-year-old California woman who has not been seen or heard from in nearly two weeks has been found in Texas, but her family disagrees. Chanel Banks, according to family members, moved to Los Angeles more than a decade ago to pursue a career in acting.