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Rob Lowe remembers the moment he hit bottom.<\/p>\n

He was too loaded to talk, but his mom called over and over again.<\/p>\n

\u201cPick up. Your grandfather\u2019s had a heart attack,\u201d his mother kept saying to Lowe\u2019s answering machine.<\/p>\n

After yet another night of binge drinking, the impossibly handsome Hollywood star looked into a mirror and saw how ugly his life had become.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was a like a bad scene in a movie. I couldn\u2019t pick up because I was too f***ed up,\u201d Lowe recalled.<\/p>\n

He found himself at a crossroads. A bottle of tequila sat nearby. He also had a business card for someone who could help him get treatment. He\u2019d been carrying the card in his wallet for a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, I could drink all this tequila, so I could sleep, then handle it all tomorrow,\u201d Lowe said Thursday night in Denver. \u201cThat is the definition of insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, he called for help and checked himself into a treatment center in Tucson, Ariz. He ended up loving rehab and the 12-step program that saved his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t had a drink or a drug since,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n

That was 28 years ago.<\/p>\n

Lowe, 53, shared his story of recovery at a benefit for UCHealth\u2019s Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation, CeDAR<\/a>. The event, Critical Conversations, raised money for scholarships for people who need both residential and outpatient treatment programs.<\/p>\n

CeDAR has facilities in both Aurora and Boulder and is one of the few rehabilitation centers in the U.S. to be associated with an academic medical center. As a result of those ties, patients benefit from teams of addiction specialists who use proven, research-based treatment methods.<\/p>\n

Lowe\u2019s appearance came as medical experts and policy makers grapple with the newest addiction epidemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we have an opioid crisis,\u201d said Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, who also spoke at the CeDAR event. \u201cWe have so much more awareness to bring to this issue. If we do everything we can to educate as many people as we can, more of our neighbors and friends might seek the treatment they need.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said it\u2019s essential to shatter stigma over addictions and open doors to treatment for those who need it.<\/p>\n

Susan Dearing-Bond, CeDAR\u2019s Director of Development and Marketing, conducted a casual armchair interview with Lowe at downtown Denver\u2019s Seawell Ballroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cReducing the stigma comes from having the conversation,\u201d Dearing-Bond said.<\/p>\n

Lowe also spoke before the event in private with people who are in recovery. He\u2019s very much part of the tribe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember having one week, then 90 days, then a year. Those were the best days of my life. My first sponsor had 11 years, 11 years! He\u2019s Yoda. Then you wake up one day and you have 28 years,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n

Lowe became a star back in his teens as one the so-called Brat Pack, young beautiful stars who appeared in popular coming-of-age movies like \u201cThe Outsiders.\u201d On set, adults plied teens as young as 15 with alcohol. And so began Lowe\u2019s descent into alcoholism and drug abuse.<\/p>\n

In his teens and early 20s, he remembers looking up to friends who hung out at alcohol-soaked parties at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles and in Aspen, where they snorted cocaine off the tips of skis.<\/p>\n

The self-deprecating star, now 53, has two sons who are 21 and 23. Lowe speaks openly with them about addiction, so they can avoid the pitfalls he endured at their age.<\/p>\n

He acknowledges that some people can drink in moderation. But he\u2019s not one of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not interested in your glass of wine,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m interested in the whole bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n

After getting sober at age 25, Lowe went on to enjoy a career full of both film and TV successes, with award-winning roles on \u201cThe West Wing\u201d and \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d along with film roles in everything from \u201cSt. Elmo\u2019s Fire\u201d to \u201cWayne\u2019s World\u201d and an Austin Powers flick. This year, he will appear in the film, \u201cHow to Become a Latin Lover.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recovery is at the core of his life every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so much in my DNA. Today, it\u2019s rigorous honesty and trying to be my authentic self,\u201d Lowe said. \u201cI have no secrets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest thing to give up is that. Everybody wants that secret little part of life: drinking, drugs, alcohol, gambling, eating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lowe confessed that he\u2019s sometimes guilty of 3 a.m. H\u00e4agen-Dazs binges.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get that same feeling like when I was going to score (drugs). I don\u2019t want anyone to know. When I\u2019m eating, it\u2019s \u2018Yes!\u2019 Then, when it\u2019s over, you go into that shame spiral. It\u2019s exactly the same thing. I\u2019ve just made it a little more healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowe has great sympathy for family members who can\u2019t force loved ones to seek treatment. He\u2019s participated in many interventions and says his own family members and friends were about a week away from staging one on his behalf when he checked himself into rehab.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue is you can never do it for anyone other than you. No one is going to get sober for a job or a wife or their kids. Not everybody makes it. I had a little segment when I thought I was ready. But I wasn\u2019t,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the great letting-go that family and friends have to come to terms with. It\u2019s the balance between wanting to be supportive and knowing what the other person needs, but they don\u2019t know it yet. You\u2019re trying to keep them safe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lowe said he had to come to terms with the idea that he could be a fun person without drugs and alcohol. He could get married without a champagne toast or celebrate the birth of a baby without a drink.<\/p>\n

He discovered that life is great when you\u2019re sober.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am more fun. I\u2019m happier than I\u2019ve ever been. It\u2019s very hard to give (drinking and drugs) up. But, if I weren\u2019t having fun, I\u2019d be getting loaded again. We\u2019re not here to be bores.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowe said he relished the corny sayings and truisms once he got help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved being in rehab. There\u2019s no shame in it. It was like going to college. I got a PhD in addiction. And there\u2019s more science today than there was 28 years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cIf people could talk and think in terms of getting an education, in terms of learning about your body and mind chemistry, (that would help),\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n

In Hollywood, plenty of people go to rehab as a PR move, rather than when they\u2019re sincerely ready to get help.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a serious place for serious people, but it\u2019s unbelievably fun and challenging if you\u2019re into it,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wear my recovery like a badge of honor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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