Chad Lowe recalls NBC suing and telling him his acting career was over when he walked off his hit show Spencer at 15 years old

Entertainment Weekly

"It's a part of my life that I've never really talked about for a number of reasons," Lowe said At Home With the Creative Coalition podcast of his titular teen role on the NBC comedy that he exited after six episodes in 1985. "One, I haven't been able to make peace with it. For a long time, it's really been hard on me knowing that I willingly walked off of my own sitcom, my own television show."