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Hollywood hunk Rob Lowe insists his underage sex tape scandal was "the greatest thing that ever happened to me".
Lowe was just 22 in 1989 when he was caught in a sex tape where it emerged that one of two girls he was with was underage at 16.
"Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated," Lowe quipped of what was the first celebrity sex tape.
Asked when he realized she was only 16 when he says he believed she was 21, he laughed, "Ha! A little too late!"
But Lowe says that looking back he is now able to see that the nightmare ultimately led to the beautiful life he now has - in part because it made him hit an all-time low he had to crawl back up from.
"It ends up being the greatest thing that ever happened to me," he told Oprah Winfrey.
"Because what it ends up doing is accelerating my alcohol [addiction] 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."
He says the most amazing moment as a "news junky" was to see the evening news lead with a story "about my foolish life" over the tape.
And he added, "It's almost quaint to think about now, because now people do sex tapes to HELP their careers," he said, joking about how stars now make them and then pretend to be, 'shocked! shocked!'
