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Rob Lowe Made big changes to his life after his sex tape was dropped in the ’80s – but what has he said about the scandal?
Lowe’s star was increasing after his roles in Thursday, outside child, St. Elm and About last night. The actor was campaigning for Michael Dukakis In the 1988 presidential election When a sex tape was dropped shows Lowe with two people: 22 years old Seburt Country and his 16 year old friend Lena Jan Parsons.
At the time, there was a consent age in Atlanta, where the video was filmed, was 14. The two women were of legal age to participate in sexual activity, but 18 was the legal age to be involved in recording. Lowe, for his part, claimed he believed Parsons was 21 because they met at a nightclub before the meeting.
The film went on to become one of the first -ever commercially released sex taps. Meanwhile, Lowe settled a legal case with Parsons. Out of court family and was not charged with crime. He took his shot career, and alcohol bondage fought for several years before becoming sober in 1990.
Rob Lowe has had the pretty successful career in Hollywood, filled with his fair share of unusual things. Lowe was born in March 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia, but later moved to Dayton, Ohio. While he was in high school, his mother, Barbara Hepler, and his brother, Chad Lowe, moved to Malibu, California, where (…)
Lowe, who has picked up fun of himself since By talking about the play in a Saturday night live Monolog, has credited his wife, Sheryl Berkofffor helping her get to a better place. The couple tied the knot in 1991 and expanded their family twice with his sons Matthew and John.
After bouncing back, Lowe went on to appear West wing, siblings, parks and leisure, black code and 9-1-1: Star lonely. Over the years, he has also made rare comments about the sex tape.
Keep scrolling for Lowe’s honest quotes for the scandal:
Still find work
“I’ve always been fortunate to have always worked. Even after the sex tape was announced, it was like: you’re still a professional baseball player, but you’re playing for a double or triple and,” Lowe told Lowe Gq in 2015. “I lost the role in Titanic Billy Zane had. But I was never banned from the game.”
Lowe revealed that only two people in Hollywood reached out to him in the result: actress Jodie Foster and producer Don Simpson.
“Jodie and I had made the New Hampshire hotel together and sent me a note with a circular line by John Irving: ‘Keep passing the open windows.’ She was saying, ‘You will arrive through it,’ he added. Don basically said, ‘f ***’ em if they can’t take a joke. ‘Oh, and Hugh Hefner took me aside at one time and said, you had to do it. The technology existed. ‘”
In on the joke
During the central roast of Rob Lowe’s comedy, the actor made a fun scandal with a sketch where he appeared to be naked while dancing to “for a moment only” St. Elmo’s fire Before turning around to show himself adjusting a saxophone.
Comedian Rob Riggle Having done the tape excavation in particular 2016, saying, “Rob, in the two sex taps you appeared with two other-god-god, you can’t even carry sex tape. You’re like me sex taps. Self-valuing! Beat you to the punch!”
Proced Fun years later
Lowe quoted on The Jess Cage Show by Siriusxm in 2019 that he “invented” the sex tape. He went on to a joke that “the problem” was that “made no money of it as everyone does now.”
Jumping a place off for its sobriety
Elsewhere in the Siriusxm appearance, Lowe Credit the scandal for helping him become clean.
“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?’ I’m 29 years in and, like, people talk, but it’s the best thing that has ever happened to me, ”he noted. “Honestly, I do because he sobered, and sober married. I’ve been married 29 years and I have two great sons. I don’t think anything of that happens without going through that scandal.”
Deal with the result
“(The fallout) definitely changed my life at the time, and, in retrospect, realized that another step made me restore and revalue my life,” Lowe told Lowe People In 2024. “But the thing that really changed was failing to show for my family and myself.”
Lowe recalled that “so willing” to kick his addiction by the time he checked into a rehabilitation facility in 1990.
“It relieved, and it was scary, (but) I learned the tools to change your life if you have the self-amest to do. I felt, ‘Oh, okay, I’m not alone. I’m not mad.’ I had no doubts (and) I didn’t like, ‘Well, I might be sober for a while,’ ”he shared. “I always tell people: you can’t go sober – I don’t care if it’s fentanyl, booze, drugs, charcoal, pot, gambling, overeating, addiction on sex, anyway, you can’t stop for your job, wife, family, parole officer because you have improved something. Only when you’re ready, time.”
