Rob Lowe reflects on infamous sex scandal: ‘It got me sober’ – USA TODAY

Rob Lowe said if sex tape was made 20 years later it would’ve helped his career.

Speaking about his filmed sexual encounter made during the 1988 Democratic National Convention with a lighthearted tone, Rob Lowe said with a smile, if the “sex tape was made 20 years later it would’ve helped my career”.

The 1989 “St. Elmo’s Fire” actor faced a lawsuit from the mother of a 16 year old girl involved in the tape, Lowe denied knowing that the girl was underage.

Rob Lowe told USA Today, “It’s one of the reasons why I got sober,” he said. “I, like, woke up one day and was like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’