Spotted: Celebrity Sighting of the Day is Rob Lowe who has a new tell-all book out called, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography
It’s been a busy week for the current star of Parks and Recreation. Thursday, he was on The Oprah Winfrey Show discussing various topics from his memoir. One item he specifically addressed was the sex tape filmed during the 1988 Democratic Convention which nearly ruined his career when he was merely 22 years old. In retrospect he calls this dark period of his life the “greatest thing” to have ever happened to him.
The tape for those not old enough to remember included Lowe and two females, one of which turned out to be only 16 years old. Lowe always has insisted that he thought the younger girl was over 21. When Oprah asked Lowe when he found out she was younger than he thought, Lowe responded, “Ha! A little too late!”
Lowe says he is thankful the situation happened because it made him deal with the reason why he was caught in that situation, namely, his alcohol use.
“Because what it ends up doing is accelerating my alcohol [use] 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. It ends up being the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
He continued, “The charade was over – now I would be forced into being who I really was, for better or for worse. I knew who I wasn’t – I wasn’t that guy.”
Lowe can now laugh about the scandal because it’s been so long in the past. About his being the subject of the first celebrity sex tape scandal, he said looking straight into the camera: “Let me just say this — sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.”
