between breaths a memoir of panic and addiction

He’s even built a steady side hustle as a voice-over artist for animated series. He’s cashed big checks as a pitchman for Atkins diet products, KFC and DirecTV. Lowe has also penned two best-selling memoirs, 2011’s “Stories I Only Tell My Friends” and 2014’s “Love Life.” He adapted those tales into a solo show that was touring the country until it was sidelined by COVID. Since 2019, he’s hosted a buzzy podcast “Literally! With Rob Lowe,” produced by Conan O’Brien’s podcast group, that features dishy interviews primarily with his long list of industry friends and collaborators. He’s become a new star player in Ryan Murphy’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” procedural franchise, which opened its second season last month to an impressive seven-day audience of nearly 10 million viewers.

Lowe is thriving amid the global content boom. It’s a good character.”Īnd a lucrative one. Like a true thespian, he adds with his trademark grin, “So it turns out this is who I am. You start living your actual values and living as who you truly are,” Lowe says. “One of the great gifts of recovery is that you start living your authentic life. Lowe shared his story with Variety for the second edition of the magazine’s Recovery series, designed to highlight insiders from all sectors of the entertainment industry who are managing the disease of addiction and thriving professionally with the help of a wide range of treatment and recovery programs available, even in COVID times. The reason that people don’t get sober 100% of the time when they go into programs is that people aren’t ready when they go to use the tools.” “The threat of losing a marriage, losing a job, incarceration - you name the threat, it will not be enough to do it. “Nothing can make you get sober except you wanting to do it,” he says. The conversation was candid, punctuated by the roar of the Pacific Ocean and the rhythm of trains whizzing past the posh Rosewood Miramar Beach complex. Elmo’s Fire” to “The West Wing” and “Parks and Recreation” to his latest network TV series, Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star,” reflected on the impact of sobriety on his life and work during a socially distanced sit-down interview on a hotel patio by the shores of his beloved Montecito, Calif.

Lowe, whose résumé stretches from “The Outsiders” and “St. It really helps get you where you need to be a lot quicker.”

“The longer you are in recovery the more facile you are in getting honest.

Between breaths a memoir of panic and addiction