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Rob Lowe Shares Moments That Led to Sobriety Wake-Up Call

Rob Lowe opens up about his sobriety journey in a new cover story interview.

“Getting sober was an incremental decision,” he told PEOPLE in a cover story that celebrated 10 transformative moments in the Unstable actor’s life. The 60-year-old Hollywood icon recalled that there were plenty of little realizations before entering rehab at Sierra Tucson in 1990, like when he watched Warren Beatty, one of his “heroes,” in the 1975 romantic comedy Shampoo. After the now-infamous sex tape of him hooking up with two young women—one 22-year-old and one 16-year-old—around the 1988 Democratic Convention was leaked to the public, he said that scandal “definitely changed [his] life at the time.”

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