“Power” and “Lethal Weapon” star Keesha Sharp once had such a debilitating fear of flying, she’d turn down roles to avoid airplanes.
“When I was afraid of flying, I would not accept jobs that made me have to fly,” she told Pvnew. “If I could not take a train or drive I will not accept the job.”
She recalled of her phobia, which began in college, “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.”
As an avid churchgoer, the “Why Did I Get Married” star ultimately decided to put her faith to the test.
She recalled one lucky acting break 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.”
She also says, “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.'”
The New York native, 49, starred in the Fox series “Lethal Weapon” from 2016 to 2019 opposite Damon Wayans as his character’s wife.
“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 told Pvnew.
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.'”
Sharp currently stars in Hallmark Mahogany’s latest film “Spring Breakthrough.”
