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.”

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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.”

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During the first round of auditions in Los Angeles, Lowe writes of meeting Tom Cruise, then a houseguest of the Sheens: “He’s open, friendly, funny, and has an almost robotic, bloodless focus and an intensity that I’ve never encountered before.” In New York for the second round of auditions, Lowe finds that Cruise is “already showing traits that will make him famous; he’s zeroed in like a laser.” “We check into the Plaza Hotel. I am taken aback at the luxury and spectacle of the lobby…. The front desk tells us we will be sharing rooms,” Lowe writes of the actors’ arrival in the Big Apple. “In a flash, Cruise is on the phone to his agent, Paula Wagner. ‘Paula, they are making us share,’ he says…. The rest of us are staggering around like happy goofs….. ‘O.K., then. Thank you very much,’ he says like a 50-year-old businessman getting off the phone with his stockbroker. ‘Paula says it’s fine.’ ”

Lowe remembers hanging out with Cruise and the other actors in a gymnasium on set, when Patrick Swayze—who, Lowe writes, “makes Tom Cruise look lobotomized”—“begins to teach us a standing backflip…. When it comes to flips, I’m a pussy. I don’t flip. I don’t even dive into a pool—straight cannonball for me…. No, thanks. Cruise, not surprisingly, is all over it. ‘How about this!’ he says, almost pulling it off without even being spotted. He wipes out, but tries it again immediately.”

Lowe describes the other young actors of The Outsiders, most of whom would later become major names in Hollywood. Patrick Swayze is “as cool as you want, wearing tight jeans and a tattered, sleeveless Harley-Davidson T-shirt revealing his massive, ripped arms. (This is his uniform, he never changes it, and if I looked like him, neither would I.),” Lowe writes. In Vanity Fair’s excerpt, Lowe goes on to describe his Outsiders co-star Matt Dillon as a young ladies’ man—picking up an ogling young fan in the hotel’s lobby; pins Diane Lane as everyone’s set crush (“At only 16, she already seems like a legend.… I watch as she breezes by with her chaperone. With all the teen testosterone on this movie, she’ll need one!”); and recalls how director Francis Ford Coppola had all the actors perform Tai Chi during rehearsal (“How does a 60s greaser know or care about Tai Chi? But if the world’s greatest living director thinks we should stand on our heads to prepare, we should probably do it”).

Lowe tells Grigoriadis that despite a rocky patch following his 80s stardom that landed him in rehab, he has no regrets. “The Brat Pack is timeless,” Lowe says. “We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we’re still talking about 25 years later.”

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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’.

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Man, looks like Rob Lowe is portraying Brad Pitt!

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.

She looks beautiful!

Here’s the trailer, if you’re interested! I think it looks cute!

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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.

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