“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.”

Gossip Girl and Blue Bloods actress Chanel Maya Banks took to social media to say she is safe after family members had reported her missing following two weeks of silence