‘s was excited to work with again — but their reunion came with some anxiety as well. “Oh my gosh, it was so special. It was very nerve wracking just because I put so much pressure on myself to impress her,” Aesha revealed exclusively to .
“Because I worked with her as a second stew then I went away.” Aesha recalled how she “I felt like I grew into a woman. And as I said on the first episode [of season 9], it felt like I was coming home,” she noted.
“I just respect her so, so much. I put a lot of pressure on myself — but I am really proud of what I did and I feel like I did a good job.” The New Zealand native joined during season 4 in 2019 and worked as a second stew under ’s reign.
She became the chief stew for the first two seasons of the spinoff from 2022 to 2023 before as the chief stew during season 9, which premiered earlier this month. After working with Sandy again, Aesha found their friendship evolving even more. “It did [grow] in such a beautiful way.
When I first worked for her as a second stew, it was very much like a captain and stew relationship. Then after the show when she got together with [her now-wife] , who was based in Denver and we were in Breckenridge, we ended up seeing them more as friends,” Aesha, , told of their close proximity in Colorado. “Because we’d go up and have dinner and hang out and then coming back to work for her, it was just this very beautiful friendship.
” Aesha praised Sandy for how she “really supp.