VIDEO: Rob Lowe To Oprah: Sex Tape Was ‘Greatest Thing To Ever Happen To Me’

Posted on Apr 28, 2011 @ 04:12PM

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By Alexis Tereszcuk
Radar Staff Reporter

Being a pioneer is one thing, but leading the sex tape revolution? Wow.

Rob Lowe, 47, is promoting his new autobiography Stories I Only Tell My Friends and told Oprah Winfrey that having the first “celebrity sex tape” actually was a positive thing for him.

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“It ends up being the greatest thing that ever happened to me,” he told Oprah. After joking that celebrities today make their own sex tapes to launch their careers, he said that the scandalous tape that surfaced in 1989 changed his life for the better.

“What it ends up doing is accelerating my alcohol stuff to where I finally get sober,” Lowe explained.

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“I have been able to have the rest of my life, that I’m so blessed with, which has now been 20 years of sobriety.”

The book, which Lowe said he wrote in long hand by himself, is a “handbook for [his] children,” revealing his personal struggles, rise to fame and inside details of his Hollywood lifestyle.

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Rob Lowe is the sexest man alive..those eyes are to die for! And watching the action as he walks way from you...Wow, what a view. But the best thing about him is his soul...he truly is a nice guy!

by Baileygirl
Posted Mon, 05/02/2011 - 8:46am

pooky, I respect your opinion. I didn't know those girls and I wasn't there but the reason some
minors get tried as adults in a court of law is because they knew exactly what they were doing.

by TVOD
Posted Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:10pm

But, Man! was he beyond SMOKIN' HOT then and @47, he looks GREAT! Please forgive me for saying so, but those girls (16 going on 35) probably felt it was the greatest thing to ever happen
to them.

by TVOD
Posted Thu, 04/28/2011 - 11:02pm

I doubt being raped was the greatest thing that ever happened to them

by pooky
Posted Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:23am

If memory serves me, he was in Atlanta for a democratic fundraiser with his friend, Justin.
Girlie banged both of them at the same time and her ugly friend stole the tape.

by TVOD
Posted Thu, 04/28/2011 - 10:30pm