Aisha Dee on celibacy and finding secret love
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Who is Aisha Dee and what’s her background in acting?
A D, welcome to Inherited. I want to go to you now though, landing the role of Kat Edison on the Bowl tie. Can you talk to me about how you grew alongside her?
She started to almost influence me and like inspire me to stand like ten toes. The thing that is like most important to me is the fact that like I know that that show and that character helped me come out.
How have you navigated dating, I suppose, over the years and in your twenties when you have been in the entertainment industry? It's definitely been
challenging. But um I'm in love right now. Are you? I'm like private about this one area of my life. I kinda like that this is something that's like.
Only mine. And you've spoken yeah about having endometriosis. Can you take me back to when you first started experiencing
pain? Yeah, around twenty one the pain kind of got so bad that I basically ended up having to have surgery for assist on my ovaries. I thought I was going in for keyhole and then woke up and couldn't lift my head.
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Thanks. So nice to be here.
So nice to have you in the studio. You started out as a child star. And I don't know if you know this about me, I mean you probably don't, but the audience does. I did as well. I was on the Sleepover Club. Oh shut the
fuck up.
And do you know what everybody growing up and still to this day is like you were on the Saddle Club. Like they get the shows mid-star.
Yeah.
They get
m honestly, I because I saddle club, right? Yeah. But they were two iterations of the saddle club. Yes. And I think often people get me confused with the other biracial. That was two seasons of the Sleepover Club as well. Yeah, I'm like, I'm not gonna correct them because Why would I do that? Because uh if they think I'm from the first saddle club, sorry, it's the superior one, it's the OG. So if they're getting me confused for for her, then that's fine, I'll take it.
You'll take it. Yeah. Well I want to start on your career. Your relic you told our producers is your ukulele. And you've had it for over a decade and you you take it with you wherever you go. Mm-hmm. Tell me about this ukulele and what it means to you.
I well my my like my mom's an opera singer and so I like When I was growing up she worked in like music shops, uh music express on the Gold Coast sort of being a town centre. And so because she was single mom, I was often like with her in the workplace and I was I was allowed to go and like try instruments and kind of take them home and then bring them back and Uh So I love playing music and it kinda like calms me down and ukulele just kinda became the thing that's like easy to travel with, I think. Like I can just put it in the overhead compartment and I don't have to worry about it. And my ukulele's been through a lot. She's really been thrown around quite a bit.
With you? Yeah. Yeah, 'cause I think he also said it like grounds you, keeps you down to earth. Mm-hmm.
Yeah. It's kind of the only constant thing when everything else feels like it's um changing and I'm in a different city and a different time zone and a different season. Like I just came from a heat wave in LA. It's so hot and here it's freezing my tits off like I think. Um and so it's nice to have something that feels somewhat consistent.
Take me back to younger Aisha and how you got into acting. What was she like? At what age did you start to experiment with acting?
I mean I think like as I one of the only probably one of like four or five black kids on the Gold Coast in the nineties, I was always kind of acting. I was always kind of code switching and figuring out what version of me do people want to see and interact with. And so I think part of it was just that. Part of it was like constantly playing a character in my life. Um but I also just really loved movies. Like old movies, the 1920s, Josephine Baker movies, Paul Gee and Bess, and like Sweet Charity. I loved a lot of like older musicals.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Aisha Dee and what’s her background in acting?
0:00–7:48
2
How did Aisha’s early roles on *The Saddle Club* and *The Sleepover Club* shape her career?
7:48–14:41
3
What impact did playing Kat on *The Bold Type* have on Aisha’s personal life and coming‑out journey?
14:41–22:18
4
Why did Aisha choose to spend a year in celibacy and what did she learn from it?
22:18–28:44
5
How has Aisha’s experience with endometriosis influenced her health advocacy?
28:44–36:43
6
How did Aisha meet her current partner on the streets of LA and what does love mean to her now?
36:43–43:39
7
What are Aisha’s favorite meals to cook at home and how does cooking fit into her solo lifestyle?
43:39–52:30
8
What legacy does Aisha want to leave for her younger sister and future generations?
52:30–59:42