When "Family Affair" ended, Anissa Jones' co-star Brian Keith approached the young girl to join him in a new sitcom titled "The Brian Keith Show." However, Jones wasn't interested in the opportunity. She felt that she was typecast as the adorable little girl when she played Buffy, which resulted in her not being chosen for other roles, such as the one in "The Exorcist." There were no roles she was interested in pursuing, so Jones decided to live a normal life away from the spotlight (via AmoMama) and enrolled at Westchester High School in Los Angeles. Jones' personal life wasn't the best either. Her parents divorced as she rose to stardom, and she lived with her father, who then passed away. After that, she moved in with her friend instead of living with her mother.

The events in her life caused her to rebel. In her early teen years, as reported by Outsider, she started shoplifting and often skipped school. She was arrested and spent a few months in a juvenile detention center. After being released, she was sent to live with her mother. However, she had a difficult time living on the straight and narrow, and she went back to shoplifting and using drugs. She eventually stopped going to school in 1975, per Groovy History. When she turned 18 years old in 1976, Jones finally had access to the salary she acquired from "Family Affair." Geoffrey Mark, who worked on documentaries, said, "She received a little less than $200,000, which she blew almost immediately. In four or five months," (via Closer Weekly).

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