Rob Lowe on ‘The Outsiders’ 40th anniversary: ‘I’ll never forget it’
‘Unstable’ star Rob Lowe tells Fox News Digital it feels like ‘four days’, not 40 years, since ‘The Outsiders’ was released.
Rob Lowe took a wild trip down memory lane.
The "Outsiders" star recently reminisced about a memorable bus ride with Michael J. Fox and other celebrities, when the two friends were busted by police for "smoking pot" in 1986.
"There was a bus tour through California for Prop 65, which was about cleaning up our water system, and everybody on the planet was on it," Lowe shared on Ted Danson’s "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" podcast.
"But there were two different buses. . . . We got pulled over for speeding, but also because Michael J. Fox and I were smoking pot out of the top of the Greyhound bus roof."
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"The Outsiders" star Rob Lowe reflected on the time he and Michael J. Fox got busted by police for smoking marijuana on a bus trip in the 1980s. (Getty Images)
"The cop pulled us over … it was like a clown car — out came Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Judd Nelson, Michael J. Fox, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Robert Downey Jr., Jane Fonda, Danny Glover," he laughed.
When Danson asked why the Greyhound bus was pulled over, he replied, "We had the top emergency hatch off, Michael and I, and we were smoking pot."
"We had the top emergency hatch off, Michael and I, and we were smoking pot."
Reps for Lowe and Fox did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
Rob Lowe and Michael J. Fox in Los Angeles, California in 1986. (Getty Images)
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The former Brat Pack member’s story comes after he recently opened up about his sobriety journey.
Lowe said his road to sobriety more than 30 years ago was "incremental."
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Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell and Patrick Swayze on the set of "The Outsiders." (Getty Images)
He previously reflected on the night he didn’t take his mother’s call about his grandfather’s heart attack, which he referred to as his "final wake-up call."
"I remember like it was yesterday: My mom telling me [on the answering machine] to, 'Pick up, pick up,' because my grandpa had had a heart attack," he told People magazine. "I couldn't deal with it in the state I was in, and I needed to go to sleep to wake up so I could deal with it." Once in his bedroom, he began drinking tequila.
Rob Lowe, 60, went to rehab in 1990. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
He added, "Who doesn’t keep a bottle of Cuervo Gold by their bedside table? That was the final wake-up call. I’ve been sober ever since."
The 60-year-old finally went to rehab later that year, in 1990.
"Getting sober was an incremental decision. It's baby steps until you're ready. You can't do it until you’re really ready," the "Unstable" star admitted.
Interestingly, Lowe said the 1975 movie "Shampoo," about a lascivious hairdresser, was a "baby step" toward sobriety.
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"It’s a great movie, but at the end, he's a bon vivant, charming playboy left with nothing," Lowe said of Warren Beatty’s character. "It affected me tremendously and [was] the first glimmer of your conscience, your destiny, God, going, 'Psst, pay attention to this.'"
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