Of her mother specifically, Chanel added, “This is a woman who has stopped me so many times in my life for things I have worked for since I was a child.”
E! News has reached out to Chanel’s parents and her cousin regarding her recent interview but has not yet heard back.
Meanwhile, Chanel’s husband Carlos Jimenez—has maintained Chanel’s perspective in a statement to E! News as well as in an interview with Extra.
As he told Extra of the time when she was supposedly missing, “I’d been texting Chanel.”
On Nov. 19, Danielle-Tori shared a statement regarding Chanel, clarifying that she had been found, adding in a Facebook post, “she seems happy.”
And Chanel herself indicated as much.
“I’m an adult woman, I don’t have to call my mother every day,” she stressed to Extra. “I’m alive and you’re going to be seeing so much more of me. It feels so good to be here and not be hiding something.”