HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 07: (L-R) Rob Lowe and John Owen Lowe attend the Tom Ford AW20 Present at Milk Studios on February 07, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Amy Sussman/Getty Pictures)
In a brand new interview with Folks, Rob Lowe’s son, John Owen Lowe, offers his father a number of credit score for serving to him to just accept that he had a substance abuse drawback and wanted to get assist.
In the identical interview, Rob Lowe stated he acknowledged a number of himself in his 26-year-old son, who graduated from Stanford College and now works as a author on “9-1-1: Lone Star,” Rob Lowe’s collection a few veteran Manhattan firefighter, the lone survivor of his fireplace station within the wake of the 9/11 assaults, who begins anew Texas.
The elder Lowe stated he began consuming closely as a teen. Within the Nineteen Eighties, the actor shot to fame as a teen idol and as one of many scorching younger “St. Elmo’s Hearth” stars who frolicked collectively within the notorious “Brat Pack” — all of which meant he appreciated to work arduous and get together arduous as effectively.
Lowe, now 57, started to see that his son was equally struggling in his teenagers and early faculty years. “I actually knew Johnny was a chip off the previous block, as his large factor was, ‘Dad, I’m getting straight A’s at Stanford. How a lot of an issue might I've?’ That [justification] was my factor.”
By his mid-20s, the elder Lowe realized he couldn’t justify his consuming anymore. In 1988, he was caught in an notorious scandal over a intercourse tape that confirmed him having intercourse with a 16-year-old lady the evening earlier than the Democratic Nationwide Conference. Lowe was by no means prosecuted as a result of the age of consent in Georgia was 14 on the time, but it surely took a while for his profession to recuperate.
Two years later, he determined to stop consuming for good and accomplished an in depth alcohol rehabilitation program. He has maintained sobriety for the previous 32 years, saying it was the perfect determination of his life.
As Lowe devoted himself to having a household and being the daddy to 2 sons, Matthew and John Owen, he started to fret about his youthful son, he informed Folks. Actually, John Owen by no means has handled being a daily tabloid determine or with a intercourse tape scandal, however Lowe stated his son was pushed in ways in which might doubtlessly masks issues.
John Owen has written about how he labored arduous at getting good grades so he might go to his dream faculty, Stanford, based on HuffPost. In a tweet, he described his educational focus in 2019, in response to reviews that rich dad and mom, together with TV stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, had paid tens or lots of of hundreds of dollars in bribes to get their kids fraudulently admitted to prime faculties.
In his put up, John Owen shared a photograph of his commencement day from Stanford, together with his father and older brother Matthew, who had graduated from Duke College. Lowe wrote that he thought it was “unhappy” that deserving college students, who didn’t have the means to afford tutoring or check packages like he did, might lose out on the prospect to attend their dream college as a result of a rich individual’s little one had cheated their approach in.
John Owen informed Those who he determined to get sober about three and a half years in the past, and credit his father with being “majorly instrumental” in that alternative. He stated his father understood that an addict gained’t get sober till they make that alternative for themselves and as a substitute supplied love and regular help as he struggled together with his habit.
“He by no means gave up on me,” John Owen informed Folks. “I've a bit over three and a half years [of sobriety] now, however after I took my first-year chip, he and I spoke at a [12-step] assembly in entrance of 200 individuals. And it was one of the vital profound experiences of my life.”