Find Out How Keesha Sharp’s Flying Fear Almost Snatched her Life’s Biggest Role!

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: Natalie | In Career , Entertainment

Keesha Sharp starred in the Lethal Weapon. source: Page Six

Keesha Sharp revealed she once had a deep fear of flying.
She also turned down many roles to avoid airplanes.
Sharp revealed that her flying phobia started when she was in college.

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Keesha Sharp reveals her flying phobia

Actress Keesha Sharp revealed she had a deep fear of flying and that she turned down many roles to avoid airplanes.

In a recent interview, the Power actress revealed,

“When I was afraid of flying, I would not accept jobs that made me have to fly,”
“If I could not take a train or drive I will not accept the job.”

Sharp clarified that the fear began when she was in college, saying,

Keesha Sharp — Sharp plays a professor in Power Book II: Ghost. source: Page Six

“It was paralyzing. If I did fly, which is really rare. I would walk on the plane and cry the whole time because I was walking to my death.”

The actress, being a churchgoer, then finally decided to put her faith to the test.

Keesha revealed that she then got a lucky acting break which was “one of the biggest gigs of my life. I had to fly all over the world for that gig and I wouldn’t have been able to do it… I just let go and let God.”

Sharp added,

“My husband [actor and singer-songwriter Bradford Sharpe] would fly all over the world.” She says that she’d tell him, “‘I will never go,’ and he [would] say, ‘Keesha please’… He was going to Europe, and I would say I will go, but in my heart, I was like, ‘I’m not gonna go.’”

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Fans react to Sharp’s flying phobia

The 49-year-old actress then got the role of Damon Wayans‘ character’s wife in Lethal Weapon which ran from 2016 to 2019.

The New York native said,

“I did not test for it. I didn’t do a chemistry read for it. I just got this gig… Three days later I was shooting,”

She recalled,

“Then I had that moment where I heard clearly heard this voice that said, ‘You don’t live by your faith, yet you are so good at telling other people advice, but you don’t live it.’”

Currently, Keesha stars in Hallmark Mahogany‘s latest film Spring Breakthrough.

Keesha Sharp (2) — Keesha has been married to Bradford for 26 years. source: Page Six

Fans reacted to Keesha’s revelation with one writing,

”I too had a massive flying phobia. But it changed over time.”

Another wrote,

”Even celebs have these types of phobias?”

A third fan added,

”glad someone is speaking about something that I feel on regular basis.”

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