(In response to her last credit from Love American Style in 1970, and why she left the industry) "I was divorced at that point and I was dating a man, and I was up for a role at 20th Century Fox; I was up for a second lead in a film.... All weekend, my boyfriend was acting really strange. Just kind of cold and odd, and finally... I said, 'What's going on?' And he said... I just know you're going to get this role, and I just can't see being married to an actress. And that's what did it. Married? (laughs.) Stupidly, stupidly, I called my agent, I was with William Morris, I called my agent Monday morning and said that I was quitting, and canceled the interview, and never worked again. (I did marry the man... and was married to him for quite a while.)"
Ms. Hillyer later relates how she later did PTA (and volunteer) work, having borne a child, and later went to college (for nine years), deciding on becoming a psychologist, that is, a marriage specialty therapist, while maintaining an office in California. She later shifted from therapy to being a life coach. ("Splat From The Past #1481," 2022 interview featured on YouTube.).
