Rob Lowe got sober after he had to go to sleep instead of answering his mother’s call about his grandfather suffering a heart attack. The 60-year-old ‘St Elmo’s Fire’ actor hasn’t had a drink in 34 years, and has now said his decision to give up booze wasn’t the result of a sudden revelation – but instead a process of self-reflection marked by a string of wake-up calls that led up to the shocking moment he missed his mum’s desperate calls about his grandad’s health crisis. He told People: “Getting sober was an incremental decision.
It’s baby steps until you’re ready. You can't do it until you’re really ready.” Before he entered rehab at the Sierra Tucson facility in 1990, Rob said he had a series of “baby steps” on the road to getting clean.
He said one of them came when he watched one his “heroes” Warren Beatty in the 1975 romantic comedy ‘Shampoo’. Rob added: “It’s a great movie, but at the end, he’s a bon vivant, charming playboy left with nothing. “It affected me tremendously and (was) the first glimmer of your conscience, your destiny, God, going, ‘Psst, pay attention to this.
’” Rob added his infamous sex tape of him with two young women was also a major moment in his life. He said: “(That) definitely changed my life at the time, and, in hindsight, I realised it was another step that led me to recovery and reevaluating my life. “But the thing that really changed me was not being able to show up for my family and m.