Rob Lowe and his wife Sheryl are suing their former nanny for or violating their confidentiality agreement, defamation, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress to the tune of $1,000,000.

In the papers that the couple filed on Monday at the Los Angeles Superior Court, they claim that the woman, who worked for the family for seven years, "made statements in violation of her promise not to and has made false statements about Rob Lowe and his wife, Sheryl Lowe."

Though the court papers do not go into the specifics of what the nanny might have revealed about the Lowes' personal lives, Rob did write an article yesterday for the Huffington Post in which he shares some more personal thoughts.

In the article, titled Household Betrayal, Rob states that "a former employee is demanding my wife Sheryl and I pay her $1.5 million by the end of the week or she will accuse us both of a vicious laundry list of false terribles." He copied and pasted texts from the former nanny into the article, and even said, "No one intimidates my family...We will defend ourselves with vigor and without fear."

"Household Betrayal"??? Sounds like the title of a brillz new TV drama!