The family of Chanel Maya Banks, the actress who went missing two weeks ago, says she has still not been found, despite police confirmation. she was found unharmed.

After two weeks of searching, Los Angeles police found the 36-year-old man. in Texas Monday.

The “Gossip Girl” actress has since said she ran away from her family to be baptized by Pastor Robert Clancey. who recently preached about the “end of times”.

However, her family is not convinced that the woman found safe by police is Banks.

Banks’ cousin Danielle-Tori Singh said the LAPD update was “fake news” and that the woman was an “imposter” – adding that she would continue to hand out “Missing Persons” flyers. ABC7 reports.

“I have the still image from the Texas Police Department body camera that was shown to us on Monday November 11th at the Pacific Police Station in Los Angeles,” Singh wrote on his Instagram Story.

“This is the woman we are told is Chanel. We told them it wasn’t Chanel. They didn’t listen to us and closed the case.

“This is why @ohhheychanel won’t post a video saying she’s safe because it’s not Chanel,” added Singh, who came from Toronto to help with the search.

Banks was reported missing by his mother and cousin after police conducted a welfare check at the apartment in Playa Vista, California.

In the apartment Banks shares with her husband, authorities found her belongings and her dog, but there was no indication of where she might have gone.

Hours after police announced she had been found, the actress – whose credits also include “Blue Bloods” – insisted that she never missedbut left voluntarily to “escape my cage”.

“I met with the police and verified that not only am I okay, but that I am finally free,” she wrote in a now-deleted post. Instagram post.

“They said one time, you are free in Christ Jesus, you are truly free, so I told my husband six days ago that I was going to get baptized by one of my favorite pastors, the Pastor Robert Clancy.”

Banks also accused her family of sexual abuse and “manipulation,” but did not elaborate on her allegations.

Singh already said ABC7 she worried something was wrong when they couldn’t reach Banks.

“Five days of no news from my cousin are red flags and alarm bells,” Singh said. “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 actress, however, claimed in her message that she had not spoken to her cousin for “over 15 years”.