Rob Lowe's son John Owen shares surprising way he learned about dad's sex tape

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Rob Lowe didn’t want his kids to follow in his show business footsteps, but he’s ultimately happy his son, John Owen, did. In a new interview with Men’s Health for their April issue, Lowe said he fought John Owen’s natural interest in pursuing entertainment. "I tried to beat it out of him," he joked.

John Owen, 27, shared that growing up he wasn’t fully aware of his famous dad’s career or scandalous younger days. Lowe had a sex tape when he was 24 with two women, one of whom was underage.

But he wasn’t the one to break the news to his son. "I was in eighth grade or freshman year of high school, and some kid said, ‘You know, your dad has a sex tape online,’" John Owen said. "I was like, ‘What?’" He continued, "You know what it’s kind of like?

Santa Claus. I don’t think most parents ever have that moment where they sit the kids down and go, ‘OK, we’ve got to tell you something.’ A kid just figures it out.There weren’t milestone markers, like, ‘OK, he’s 16 now, time for them to learn about this part of our life!’" Lowe joked, "Wikipedia and Google took care of that for us." Unfortunately, John Owen also shared his dad’s struggles with addiction.The writer and actor revealed he was drinking as young as 16 and felt insecure and lost. "I was so closed off and so out of touch with my emotions," John Owen said. "I came off to people as this confident, probably cocky, self-absorbed extrovert.