It looks like Vanity Fair’s strategy of denying stars the cover unless they dish lots of dirt has worked, because Hilary Swank blabs in an upcoming interview with the magazine that her ex, Chad Lowe, is an addict! She says he’s been sober for three years, but that his battle with substance abuse caused a serious rift in the relationship that they couldn’t repair.
“I knew something was happening but I didn’t know what” Swank tells Vanity Fair in the August editions set to hit newsstands today.
“When I found out, it was such a shock because I never thought he’d keep something from me. And yet, on another level, it was a confirmation of something I was feeling that was keeping us from being completely solid.
“He’s sober now. I don’t want to make it seem like that’s the sole reason; there were other factors. But that just kind of blew it open. It made me look at things a lot deeper. That’s when you realize it’s not going to work.”
Lowe, 38, and his managers could not be immediately reached for comment yesterday.
Although Lowe’s struggle touched off their marriage’s downhill slide, Swank said she’s proud of her soon-to-be ex’s three years of sobriety.
Vanity Fair does not detail the actor’s substance of choice.
“It’s an enormous obstacle to overcome, and he’s doing it. He’s living a sober life,” said Swank, who married Lowe in 1997. “I know how difficult it is, and I’m really proud of his sobriety.”
The actress says she had to stay with Lowe when his substance abuse came to light.
“When I found out, I wanted to be there,” she explains. “I knew it was the most important time of his life. That’s when he needed me most.”
It sounds like once Chad beat whatever drugs he was on things were never the same between them and it was impossible to overcome.
For an actress with two Oscars Hilary Swank doesn’t get a lot of attention in the press. This revelation will make people interested in her for a week or two. She’s sporty, down to earth, and normal and people don’t think that’s particularly exciting. She should follow this up by going shopping on Rodeo Drive and having dinner at The Ivy with a hot new guy.
In the upcoming interview, Hilary addresses the problems between her high=profile Hollywood career and her soon-to-be ex-husband’s lack of prospects, saying, “I think that any frustration for him stemmed from the lack of opportunities in his own career.”
Swank, 32, says she’s wary of the dating scene, “I thought of it – of that whole world – I can’t imagine it! I can’t imagine going out right now and trying to find someone else to be with.”
Relationship guru John Gray recommends that men and women do the opposite of their natural instincts when trying to recover from a breakup. Women should start dating right away while men should take time to nurse their wounds instead of jumping into another relationship. Maybe Hilary should take a page from Charlie Sheen and start looking online.
Here is Hilary in new ads from Clavin Klein and at a party for the perfume giant Guerlain, which she also represents, on 6/14. [via]
Hilary had to finally break up with Chad because she wanted to have sex. Chad lowe is as gay as gay can be. He had to turn to substances because the press thing was harder to escape and harder to be leading a double life.
Go to west hollywood and one is sure to find a couple of chad lowe hook ups.
Hilary was agood beard for him in trying to get his career back on track, but he could not get it back on track. And therefore what is the point in staying married to him.
She owes him everything. He paid her way to getting that oscar. She never had to take any jobs to support herself and she met him less than two years after arriving in hollywood.
He was her meal ticket.
She owed him.
Theirs was a loveless marriage and the friendship.
She is a social clibmer. She has been so since middle school.
Not the meanest person, she is fairly nice.
Very driven to succeed. Not a lot up in the register. Shes the puppet and her mom is the puppetmaster
Hmm.. not very nice things about Hilarly Swank here. I gotta say that I think it’s rude and mean to say that in public! She shouldn’t do that, it’s up to Chad’s decision if he wants to share it with the public.
“When I found out, it was such a shock because I never thought he’d keep something from me. And yet, on another level, it was a confirmation of something I was feeling that was keeping us from being completely solid.”…
oh yeah and him being a homosexual was hurting my sex life…. I didn’t want to be part of the deal anymore. I wanted out, so the drug thing was convenient.
Poor Chad Lowe. He and his family connections made her.
This is the prepress that hilary needs to establish when papparazzi find pics of Chad lowe making out with men…
Yeah like hell she did not know… the deal was she was chad’s beard. Alwayas has been. She married him before she ever made any money.
now the real money is coming for her and she don’t want to have to split it.
She dated him for many years before marrying him. At the time it was the best she coudl do, but now she can do better.
Sorry celebitchy, I don’t agree that hilary is a nice girl, you can’t really be too nice and succeed in that business. You have to be ruthless.
Everyone has to pay a price for fame in hollywood without working any real jobs, andhers was marrying a homosexual.
Hilary knew something was causing a rift between them…. and that rift was that she no longer needed to be married to a homosexual.
Look at all of chads friends.
The guy is a tortured soul.
Hilary has two oscars, she could not dump him after the first or it would look too mean.
She has great handlers that were chad’s people first.
They are known as part of hollywood gay mafia.
She’s a bigger star than Chad, so its a safe enough move for her to divorce him, and she can use the drug thing as a reason for her “gays”to keep their loyalty to her over him, and to justify why she is bailing out on being chad lowes beard.
She had to make sure to keep the loyalty and fan base… she and chad were living apart for ages. Once she had the loyalty and her powerposition absolutely clear, then the divorce was safe enough.
Sealed with a kiss of the drug revelation. Thanks Chad for being my rock.
“Ryan H” and “Gavin” have the same IP Address. I totally appreciate your comments, Ryan/Gavin, and this is information I was blissfully unaware of, but I really hate when comeone posts comments and pretends to be two different people to bolster their viewpoint. This is strong enough information on its own without you trying to be two different people. I will ban people if they do this more than once.
Also, just because Chad Lowe had AIDS on “Life Goes On” doesn’t mean he’s gay – JK.
I have not heard this before, but if I see more on it from another source I might believe it.
I know nothing about Chad’s homosexuality and/or drug addictions but who knows, anything is possible. Still, I have a very negative reaction to Hilary spilling the beans on him now that she needs a bit of publicity and maybe wants to make amends for divorcing darling little Chad who cried so hard when she won her fist Oscar. I think that if you are married for so long you owe each other a modicum of respect and loyality, esp. if the problem is in the past. She’s just getting on her pity train here and I don’t like it one bit.
I do like Hillary. I’m betting Chad’s taking… cough syrup?
Well I am not sure what the reason for Hillary and Chad’s breakup is or was but today while at the gym, Equinox in Santa Monica, me and my boyfriend were being cruised by him seperately.
Trust me we did not mind, he is seriously cute and if he made a move neither of us would have rejected his offer but his eyes were definitely not of the straight guy status.
Well I am not sure what the reason for Hillary and Chad’s breakup is or was but today while at the gym, Equinox in Santa Monica, me and my boyfriend were being cruised by him seperately.
Trust me we did not mind, he is seriously cute and if he made a move neither of us would have rejected his offer but his eyes were definitely not of the straight guy status.