Orlando Brown of TV's That's So Raven, who worried friends and family after he disappeared Tuesday morning, has turned up, saying he simply "needed to be alone."
In a statement, Brown, thanked fans for their support
and apologized for not informing anyone of his whereabouts for over 24 hours.
Brown, who is a musician as well as an actor, said he dropped out of sight after a problem last week involving a scheduled performance at Club Tattoo in Los Angeles. After he incident, the statement said, he "felt a little lost and needed to get away."
"It got a bit overwhelming and I needed to be alone," he said.
Brown's publicist, who had earlier confirmed that he was missing, denied that the disappearance was a publicity stunt. "It was not a hoax," the rep says.
The 20-year-old reportedly left his manager's house around 10:20 a.m. to make a quick trip to 7-Eleven and has not been seen since. According to Brown's publicist, Elayne Rivers, he had a full day of meetings and appointments in preparation for a photo shoot Wednesday.
Brown has several projects in the works, including a Raven spin-off show, tentatively titled The Orlando Brown Show and a second album featuring tracks with top artists Akon and Sean Kingston.
