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 alum Chanel Maya Banks is sharing her perspective about what led to her reported disappearance. "It is a simple explanation," Banks, 36, told Extra in an interview published Monday, November 18.

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