Rob Lowe says threesome sex tape leak ‘changed my life,’ led to him getting sober

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notorious sex tape being leaked with helping him get sober. The “St. Elmo’s Fire” actor, 60, said in a new interview with People that the 1988 scandal, while humiliating for him at the time, was actually a major reason he beat his struggles with addiction.“[The fallout] definitely changed my life at the time, and, in hindsight, I realized it was another step that led me to recovery and reevaluating my life,” he said.“But the thing that really changed me was not being able to show up for my family and myself,” Lowe added.The former Brat Pack member was just 24 years old when he was caught in a rendezvous with two women, one aged 22 and the other just 16.Lowe shot to fame in the 1980s and began drinking as teen, entering into a life of hard-partying to cope with his success at the time that the sex tape was leaked.During an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” in 2019, Lowe quipped that he “invented” the sex tape, before admitting that that scandal helped him get sober.“It’s one of the reasons why I got sober.

I woke up one day and I was like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’ ‘ he said. “I’m 29 years in and like people talk, but it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.

Honestly, I do because it got me sober, sober got me married.”“I’ve been married 29 years and I have two great sons,” he added. “I don’t think any of that happens without going through that scandal.”Last year, Lowe’s son, John Owen Lowe, 29, revealed he was in high school when he learned about his dad’s sex tape. “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 told Men’s Health.