X-Files star in sex addiction rehab
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Sex addict: David Duchovny has asked for privacy. (Getty Images: Kevin Winter)
X-Files star David Duchovny, who currently plays a womanising writer on Californication, says he has entered a facility for treatment of sex addiction.
Duchovny, 48, sprang to fame starring as the conspiracy-minded FBI agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files, which spawned two big screen spinoffs - one of which ran in theatres this year.
He has been married since 1997 to actress Tea Leoni, with whom he has a nine-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son.
"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction," he said in a statement released through his lawyer, Stanton "Larry" Stein.
"I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."
There were no further details in the statement, which was first reported on the website of People magazine.
In January, Duchovny won a Golden Globe Award as best comic actor for playing an oversexed single dad and novelist struggling with writer's block in Californication.
- Reuters
