Kim Coles Reveals Female Cast of “Living Single” Was So Close, Their Cycles Were Synced at One Point (Exclusive)

The formed of Living Single had immoderate of nan champion chemistry connected television, and according to Kim Coles, 63, and erstwhile costar Erika Alexander, 55, that was very overmuch because of nan tight-knit relationships they had formed down nan scenes. 

In a associated question and reply pinch PEOPLE, Coles revealed that nan ladies connected nan show sewage truthful close, their menstrual cycles were synced astatine immoderate point. 

“There's thing that nary 1 has ever said, and I don't cognize if you retrieve this, Erika, our cycles would nexus up,” she says. 

“[When] you walk this overmuch clip connected group each time — it takes a week to rehearse and sprout and do these shows — truthful aft astir a period of coming backmost pursuing a hiatus aliases two, our cycles would really nexus up,” Coles explains. “It was fun, I'm sure, for everybody and nosy for nan fellas to experience,” she tells PEOPLE exclusively. 

But synced cycles weren’t nan only parameter of their closeness. According to Coles, because she and Queen Latifah shared abstraction backstage, nan 2 of them sewage to bask definite experiences different castmates didn’t. 

“So backstage, we had thing called speedy alteration booths … wherever you tin quickly get dressed, touch up your makeup, and beryllium fresh for nan adjacent scene. Well, for immoderate logic aliases another, everyone had individual quick-change booths, but Latifah and I shared nan aforesaid one. It was conscionable for illustration a double-wide trailer aliases something,” she explains.

“I went to — it's closed now — but I went to Pier 1 Imports, and I sewage a small area rug, I sewage a small sofa successful there, we had a small broadside table. At nan time, we some were smoking cigarettes, I had an ashtray. We weren't expected to beryllium smoking connected set. We'd beryllium location successful our underwear for illustration sisters and fume and hole and put connected our pantyhose and conscionable laugh, and I would springiness her facials sometimes — I'm judge I sewage connected her nerves — and conscionable laughter and play.”

And while Coles was happy to springiness their abstraction immoderate upgrades, she was besides intentional successful her nurturing of nan "Ladies First" rapper because she had conscionable suffered a immense individual loss. 

“I felt for illustration it was my occupation … We knew that Latifah had conscionable mislaid her relative [in] a motorcycle accident, and I was keenly alert that I wanted to support her joyful and laughing successful this clip of awesome pain, and they were very close. And truthful I felt for illustration it was my occupation to benignant of beryllium nan tribunal jester to nan queen, pinch jokes and each that. That was my job.”

Coles and Alexander precocious launched their “official unofficial” rewatch podcast, ReLiving Single, wherever they not only beryllium down, rewatch nan episodes and dissect nan show together, but they besides springiness fans immoderate behind-the-scenes tidbits astir everything that was going connected off-camera. 

Asked whether aliases not she’s watched nan show successful nan 27 years it’s been disconnected air, Coles says she caught an section present and there, but hasn't actively searched for nan show. 

“I had stopped searching for it. If I caught it, I caught it. If I was successful a edifice room and it was on, it was on. I hadn't watched it. I mean, fto maine show you, I was grateful for it each clip a residual cheque showed up,” she joked. 

“[I was like] it must beryllium airing because of nan residual check. And complete nan years, nan residual checks person slowed down and they've gotten smaller and smaller, but past it moved to Hulu and different check!”

“It pops up erstwhile personification says, ‘I was conscionable watching an episode,’ aliases I spot a clip connected YouTube. So it is delightful for me. It's been delightful for maine to do this rewatch podcast and to really beryllium rewatching nan shows. It holds up.”

ReLiving Single is disposable connected Spotify, YouTube and everyplace you get podcasts.