Actor Rob Lowe visited the Oprah Winfrey Show to talk his new book, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, and he spoke on his feelings about his 1989 sex tape scandal, which he said was the greatest thing to happen in his life.
The sex tape featured a group of people, in which one of the girls was later revealed to be only 16-years-old, and was one of the first scandals of it’s kind, though now we think of such things as normal occurrences with celebrities.
“Let me just say this: sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.”
He explains that he met the young girl at a 21-and-over nightclub when he was 22-years-old, and didn’t think twice about her age.
“So there’s no way I would have ever thought anybody in the club would be underage.”
He spent much of the remainder of his life hiding because of the scandal, but he says there was some good that came out of the situation:
“It ends up being the greatest thing that ever happened to me because what it ends up doing is accelerating my alcohol [addiction] to where I finally get sober. I have been able to have the rest of my life that I’m so blessed with, which is now 20 years of sobriety.”
47-year-old Rob Lowe bares his chest and more in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. He sat down with the magazine to promote his new autobiography, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography. The cover was shot by Annie Liebovitz.
“We competed to see who could play harder, then show up for work and still kick ass,” Rob Lowe tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Vanessa Grigoriadis about filming Masquerade in the Hamptons in 1987 while his then buddy, Charlie Sheen, was filming Wall Street. “The verdict: Charlie by a nose.” Lowe tells Grigoriadis that his friends growing up in Malibu pre-fame were the “uncool” guys who didn’t surf: Chris Penn and Charlie Sheen. “The cool girls in Malibu had no time for me,” Lowe says. “I wasn’t a beach volleyball player, a surfer, or a quasi-burnout.” However, as Lowe recounts in a Vanity Fair excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, it would be a mere five years after plotting their acting careers in the Sheens’ pool that the actor and his friends would be shot to fame.
Grigroriadis writes that Lowe “wasn’t embarrassed to admit that he began landing the cool girls,” which the actor confessed over the years included Demi Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Princess Stéphanie—who, Lowe remembers “with a fair amount of residual pride,” had a poster of him—and Washington secretary Fawn Hall, whom Lowe tracked down after seeing her at the Oliver North trial.
In his book, Lowe writes that Sheen in his early years was “one-of-a-kind … a Polo preppy clotheshorse in a world of O.P. shorts and surf T-shirts” and “a wonderful mix of nerd … and rebel.” “At my house we are still saving money by not buying desserts,” Lowe says, comparing his life to that of the Sheens, who lived nearby. “At Charlie’s house, it’s never-ending Häagen-Dazs, brand-new BMWs, a lagoon pool with underwater tunnels, and a lit, professional-grade basketball half-court.”
After being a front-runner to replace Charlie Sheen’s role in ‘Two And A Half Men’, Rob Lowe will remain focused on playing his part in ‘Parks and Recreation’.
Parks and Recreation executive producer Michael Schur was adamant that Rob could not take on the Men role, explaining during the Parks panel at Paley Fest, via The Hollywood Reporter, that the actor had a “multi-year contract” to remain on the comedy.
“It’s going to be hard,” Schur quipped about how Rob would take on both shows, adding “there’s no truth” to the rumors.
“The Internet lit a match and set itself on fire,” he said.
Rob wasn’t part of the panel because he was”looking at colleges with” his kids, Schur said, followed by another joke that he would have to now replace Scott Caan on CBS’Hawaii Five-0, another actor whose name was thrown into the Charlie replacement rumor mill.
In case you didn’t know, Rob and John Stamos were the front-runners rumored to replace Charlie on CBS’ ‘Two And A Half Men’.
Paying homage to actor and style icon Brad Pitt’s ultra bohemian, off-screen look, CALIFORNICATION guest star Rob Lowe plays unpredictable mega-watt movie star ‘Eddie Nero,’ a contender to play Hank (series star David Duchovny) in the film version of his blockbuster novel. Lowe (Parks & Recreation) will star in three episodes of the hit SHOWTIME comedy series’ upcoming 4th season.
Rob Lowe and his wife Sheryl Berkoff went to Mr.Chow in Beverly Hills. They stayed for hours and seemed very happy. Rob signed autographs for a couple of fans on his way out.
