In 1988, Rob Lowe was filmed having sexual relations and the tape leaked.
Now, the 55-year-old actor is speaking out about the release while doing promo for his live show, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: LIVE!.
“I talk about everything,” Rob said while appearing on the SiriusXM Hollywood Studios with Jess Cagle. “Here’s the thing, every time you’re doing a memoir, a book, a show about your life—job one is authenticity and full transparency. There can’t be that one area you won’t talk about. My whole life is there.”
About his biggest regret concerning the tape, Rob said he didn’t make any money off of it.
“The problem was, I didn’t make any money off of it like everybody does,” he said of the video. “I was too stupid.”
He also added the tape’s release was one reason he got sober.
“It’s one of the reasons I got sober. I woke up one day and was like, ‘what am I doing with my life?,’” he said. “I’m 29 years in. I honestly think it’s the best thing that happened to me. I got sober. Sober got me married. I’ve been married for 29 years. I have two great sons.”
“It’s not a great recipe for success to give an 18-year-old male fame, money and drugs and expect there not to be something that goes wrong,” he continued. “I talk a lot about recovery in the show because it’s good to see the example… I needed the examples when I was trying to change my life. It’s moving because it’s a serious — literal life and death issue — but it’s also really funny, I do a whole thing about how I loved going to rehab that I’d suggest if Christmas break you’re thinking about going to Cabo San Lucas or rehab, I’d pick rehab.”
Rob is married to Sheryl Berkoff and they have two sons: Matthew Edward and John Owen.
