Chanel Banks is secure and effectively after her household sparked a frantic search to search out her.
Nov. 14 2024, Printed 8:22 a.m. ET
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Banks’ leff her LA condominium and her canine, fuelling concern from relations.
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Her Toronto-based cousin Danielle-Tori Singh kickstarted a frantic search mission and Banks’ mother flew in from New York to help the bid to search out her, whereas the pair additionally arrange a GoFundMe web page.
They claimed she deserted her beloved canine, taking only a telephone and laptop computer from the property.
Banks’ husband was additionally accused of failing to help with the search and tearing down lacking particular person posters.
However Banks has now damaged her silence to substantiate she is secure and insists she was not lacking, earlier than hitting out at her relations in an astonishing rant.
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Banks claims she is just not near household, regardless of their claims throughout search she speaks to them recurrently.
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She wrote on Instagram: “My title is Chanel Banks I am a 36-year-old American no person.
“I’ve met with the police and verified that not solely am I OK, however I am lastly free.”
She added: “They are saying, when you’re free in Christ Jesus, you are free certainly, so I advised my husband six days in the past I used to be going to get baptised by one among my favorite pastors, Pastor Robert Clancy.
“He drove me to the airport after which I used to be off for per week … however I additionally noticed it as a chance to flee my cage.”
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A GoFundMe Web page was set as much as assist search.
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Additional hitting out at her household, she added: “I’ll by no means permit myself to be silenced ever once more.”
Her cousin claimed she by no means went “5 days” with out listening to from Banks throughout her search enchantment and stated the actress, who additionally appeared in Blue Bloods, “was like an enormous sister to me”.
However in keeping with Banks, who starred in three episodes of Gossip Lady, the place she performed Sawyer Bennett, the pair usually are not shut and he or she slammed her household for mendacity to the press about communication.
She additionally claims abuse by the hands of her mom and stepfather.
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Banks not too long ago bought married to husband who ‘refused to help search’.
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Banks continued: “For my whole life I’ve been silently carrying the ache of the ritual sexual abuse, manipulation, and outright countless torment I’ve endured constantly since I used to be a defenseless child, by the hands of my very own so-called household, whom are all so very ‘involved’ about my present whereabouts.
“I’ve met with the Police and verified that not solely am I okay, however I am lastly free from my mom and her household.”
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Banks accused mother and father of abuse.
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She added: “Now I need not simply freedom for me, however freedom for everybody struggling in silence.
“I wish to come out so that individuals like me will not be ashamed anymore. I need Justice. I am asking God to assist me get justice.
“I am releasing a clarion name to these in excessive locations who nonetheless have a soul and wish to preserve it in such a time as this. Attain out. Assist me.
“I’ll by no means permit myself to be silenced ever once more, least of all by my abusers.”
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On her cousin, Banks stated: “Regardless of (my cousin and my mom’s lies within the press) I’ve not spoken to Danielle in over 15 years, a lot much less day-after-day or 48hrs as they’ve perjured.
“For many years my household has been my religious, bodily, and emotional warden, giving me zero authority of my personage. I used to be not allowed to make any selections in life in anyway with out their approval.
“Each occasion I would get near leaving they’d falsefy official authorities paperwork relaying lies regarding my psychological well being, for the file, I’ve no psychological well being or every other file except for a parking ticket right here and there.
“In order that regulation enforcement would unquestionably and mercilessly pursue me.
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“Once I spoke up, they known as me mad, mercilessly gang stalked me and obliterated any semblance of peace, a profession or connections I ever had,”
Banks continued. “It is like they took shifts to isolate me by gaslighting me, mendacity to those that may assist regarding my sanity, it was their life’s objective to destabilize and break me. Why? To silence me.
“I came upon hours earlier than leaving that not solely my moms household, but in addition my expensive husbands had been vehemently pursuing a CONSERVATORSHIP ie full authorized management.
“There might be no extra lies. The whole lot within the darkness should come to mild. Thus says the Lord.
“PLEASE DO NOT DONATE TO ANY GO FUND ME THAT SAYS I MISSING – I AM NOT MISSING.”