Anissa spent most of her childhood portraying the role of Buffy on Family Affair. At home, she had a rocky relationship with her mother, and later moved in with her father and his fiancé. When he died, she moved back with her mother. When she became a teenager, she turned to a life of drugs and alcohol and died of a drug overdose at a party she attended with her then boyfriend. Her ashes were scattered throughout the ocean, as were the ashes of her father. She was only 18 years old.
