David Duchovny In Rehab For Sex Addiction

LOS ANGELES — David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication," has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction.

The 48-year-old actor said he did so voluntarily, in a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein. He added: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."

Duchovny's publicist, Flo Grace, confirmed the report, which first appeared on the Web site People.com. She and Stein both declined further comment.

"All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this very private time," the network said in a statement.

The second season of "Californication" begins Sept. 28.

Duchovny starred as the conspiracy-minded Fox Mulder on "The X-Files" TV series and in two films. "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" opened in theaters earlier this summer.

He and his wife, actress Tea Leoni, have two children. The couple married in 1997.

Comments

[foxfan]

Hi. My name is David and I'm a, hey, nice rack!

[hegoat]

Got caught chasing it and now is a sex addict? My wife wouldn't buy it. Sex addict - you don't live here anymore.

[RButler]

When I first noticed Duchovy when he started the X-Files, he always had that 'just rolled out of bed' look as his acting style. Now, we know why.

[johnfoirdfw]

He didn't call me damnit...

[DCtrain]

I think this qualifies him for the GOP VP slot

[tralfas]

or more accurately the Democrats President slot. Oh your right, we've already had that.

[johnnyvento]

If YOU'RE going to make an insult, it helps if you get the spelling correctly! Wouldn't want anyone thinking YOUR an IDIOT!

haha

[BlackWidowPilot]

Hmmm, interesting. Are you asserting that the GOP is "the party of Christian family values?" Best take a good, hard look at your party's actual performance record in that arena:

http://www.armchairsubversive.org

"Party of conservative Christian family values" like the locals in THE HILLS HAVE EYES or the court of Roman Emperor Caligula, but that's about it.

Hypocrisy, thy name be GOP. Or is that "Greedy Old Perverts" or "Gang of Pedophiles?"

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[Johnniedog]

Took your name from the Jetsons' Dog. Funny!! If you think the Republicans did not have sex scandle, think again!! How about a Republican Majority leader that leads the charge to get Clinton Impeached (Nute Gingrich) as he is having an illicite affair with what was his third wife? Ring a Bell? How about the Two Republicans that sat on the Family Values council...One gets caught making phone-calls to set up appointments with Prostitutes, from the Congressional Cloak Room,(David Vitter (R)) and the other is caught soliciting for Gay sex with a stranger in an Airport Bathroom(Larry Craig(R) ). Or how about the Republican Pedophile in charge of the Congressional Paiges, with the full knowledge of the House Majority Leader, and is kept in that position for an additional two years because the Republicans did not want to have the story come out before the Election?....Etc....Should I go on? and On? and on? DickWeed!!

[foxfan]

Are you saying Palin is a sex addict or are you just not funny?

[bartonfink]

it's just weird that his character on xfiles was a porn freak. was that his suggestion? is it method? hope this story goes away and we can all focus on the real life xfile that is mccain's VP pick. supposedly, the truth is out there...

[starrianna]

I think David Duchovny is hot.

His wife needs to loosen up and let him share himself with the world.

=]

[HermioneGranger]

Didn't he use to watch porn compulsively when he was still with the Bureau?

[tiger313]

Tea is beautiful and talented. I also think he's yummy. I hope he wasn't cheating on her. I don't know anything about sexual addiction. Wishing them well.

[nevadagirl]

It means he was cheating. A lot. He has a "disease" that causes him to screw strangers, friends, anyone in the path of his irresistable drive. It really means that (just like Bill Clinton) he needs constant aproval to feel good. By the way, why hasn't Hugh Heffner died of an STD?

[LawrenceL]

"It really means that ... he needs constant aproval (sic) to feel good."

Is that why you have sex? Because it give you approval? (Laughs)

[BlackWidowPilot]

Links re: Hefner? No?

And that neurotic need for constant approval, does that also apply to the vaunted "party of conservative Christian family values:"

http://www.armchairsubversive.org

Sexual addiction is indeed a psychological disorder, well documented and to varying degrees treatable. As for what motivated President Clinton, this alumnus of a university department of Psychology would venture mere *ego* had more to do with his peccadilloes than anything else. Too bad the current moralizing denizen of the White House these past eight years from Hell was not limited to such bad behavior as cheating on his wife with an intern... unless of course you take a wide stance on the matter of what constitutes bad behavior amongst elected officials...

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[laurenmodery]

Somebody gave me some unasked for gossip about him earlier this year and I just shrugged it off. Hollywood is a crazy town and not the easiest place to keep a leveled head. He seems like a good guy and I'm sure this is really tough for his family. Think how embarrassing it must be for a guy to admit that publically when he's has small kids. Give the guy a little respect.

[marleysghost]

It's pretty tough out there. Men are encouraged to gobble viagra while women are encouraged to discourage men from acting out their fantasies. As a nation we are sexual schizophrenics. Is there a pill for that? I'd be confused, too, if.......well...I am confused, too. That's life in a hypersexed popular culture for you.

[JimNauseam]

Sounds like a porn addiction to me. Tea must've caught him typing with no hands!

[wilhelmR]

If alcoholics can get away with it why not sex addicted people?

[bikerdude]

Get away with what????Addiction is an obsessive/compulsive disease that can be arrested and treated.

[heal57]

I don't believe that. You can always masturbate; he got caught so not he's in Rehab; it's so republican.

[firelord5000]

Whats with all the cheating comments... nowhere does it say he cheated on his wife, even on newyork post etc.. seems like dude got too much of tea, can't really blame him, she is smokin!

[FaceYourFears]

Cut the tip off David, I heard that works.

[jmo007]

His admitting and having announced that he has a sex-addiction another way of saying that he has been committing adultry, sleeping around, etc.? How does a man, who is married, have a sex addiction? What does he demand to have it all the time, and she does? Or, is he out humping everything he sees? What is it?

[ChescoMom]

Or is it p o r n addiction?

[TLV]

Usually, yes.