With very little acting work coming in the years after Family Matters, Foxworth formed a R&B musical group, S.H.E., with her two sisters (Tyren Perry, Jania Perry). They then released their debut album 3’s a Charm on July 1, 1997 through Shaquille O’Neal’s T.W.IsM./Interscope Records. From 2000-2002, She worked in the adult industry, making pornographic films under the pseudonym Crave.

In December 2008, People magazine reported that Foxworth was pregnant. She and longtime boyfriend Michael Shaw were expecting a child in early 2009. On May 29, 2009, People reported that Foxworth and Shaw’s baby was born, a boy named Michael Douglas Shaw, Jr. He was 10 days overdue, and Foxworth shared the news of his birth while still in the delivery room via text message.

Foxworth battled substance abuse and depression. It was rumored that this was prompted in part by a judge’s ruling that her trust fund of more than $500,000 be used to save her family from bankruptcy, but she denied this in a 2009 interview, stating, “I think [that came] from the National Enquirer. We never filed for bankruptcy. We were almost to the point where we were just completely flat broke but we never filed for bankruptcy.”

In Fall 2009, the TV One series Life After chronicled Foxworth’s story, dealing with her departure from Family Matters, and her subsequent marijuana use, which she claimed to have stopped smoking. During the show, her newborn son was shown.