'A bad situation': Chanel Banks shares her side of the story after her family reported her missing

LOS ANGELES (TCN) -- Chanel Banks, the "Gossip Girl" and "Blue Bloods" actress whose family reported her missing, spoke to "True Crime News" exclusively about her whereabouts and how she left town to get herself "out of a bad situation." Banks' mother and cousin reported her missing to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), saying she had not been seen or heard from in several weeks. Police conducted welfare checks at her apartment, but Banks wasn't there. Banks, however, says she was never missing in the first place. She said, "I had to take myself out of a bad situation. I