Keesha Sharp reveals fear of flying that almost ended her career

‘Power’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ star Keesha Sharp reveals she once had such a debilitating fear of flying, she’d turn down roles to avoid airplanes causing setbacks in her career.

Thankfully, now Sharp has learned to manage her fears and has gone on to win awards for her acting. She has also appeared on Broadway and received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series nomination for her role in ‘Lethal Weapon’.

Afraid of planes and flying

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

She shed light on 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.”

A big break

She recalled what her 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 now 49-year-old actress starred in the Fox series ‘Lethal Weapon’ from 2016 to 2019. She described the casting as a quick process.

“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 Page Six.

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 has three upcoming projects according to IMDb, sci-fi thriller ‘Dark My Light’, true crime film ‘Love & Murder: Atlanta Playboy’ and the crime drama ‘Heist 88.’