Less than a week after Gossip Girl actress Chanel Banks was reported missing by her family, she has spoken out for the first time: “I’m alive and you’re going to be seeing so much more of me.”

Gossip Girl and Blue Bloods alum Chanel Maya Banks explained the circumstances of her alleged disappearance. "I had to take myself out of a bad situation," Banks, 36, told True Crime News in a teaser from her Monday,

A former "Gossip Girl" actor, Maya Chanel Banks, was located in Texas after being reported missing by her family, police say.