DEMI MOORE HELPED ROB LOWE STAY SOBER
Actor Rob Lowe says his St Elmo’s Fire co-star Demi Moore going sober in the hard-partying ’80s was an inspiration
Actor Rob Lowe is thankful to Demi Moore for helping him get sober with her new memoir Inside Out, in which the 56-year-old recounts her own struggles with substance abuse.
The actor, 55, spoke about Moore on the talk show The View on Monday, saying his St Elmo’s Fire (1985) co-star “was the first person I ever knew who got sober”, reports people.com. “She was a huge inspiration to me. It was the ’80s, we were all doing our thing. I just remember thinking, ‘If that girl can get sober, anybody can’,” he said.
Lowe, who has been sober for close to three decades, added, “Everybody has that person in their life where they go, ‘That’s a great example’. So it was very helpful.” He also said that he “loved rehab”, that it gave him “answers that I didn’t have” about life.
“It was like going to school to learn how to live your life with tools that nobody ever taught me. Here’s one of the great ones I learned: Never compare your insides to someone else’s outsides’. I spend a lot of time thinking, ‘Should I be doing this, should I be doing that?’ It changed my life. I have great empathy in people who can just do it themselves. I needed experts. It was great, it was fantastic,” he added.
Moore and Lowe also starred together in the 1986 film About Last Night. In her memoir, the actor wrote about her marriages to actors Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher, body image issues and substance abuse.
Moore also wrote about the emotional toll her relationship with and marriage to Kutcher (2005-12) took on her mental and physical health.