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David Duchovny starts treatment for sex addiction
Georgina Littlejohn, Evening Standard29.08.08
X Files star David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction.
In a statement released through his lawyer, the 48-year-old actor said: "I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction.
"I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."
Duchovny has been married to actress Téa Leoni since 1997 and they have two children, daughter Madelaine West, nine, son Kyd Miller, six.
The Malibu-based actor plays sexobsessed writer Hank Moody on the US TV series Californication and last month returned to the big screen in the second X Files film as Agent Fox Mulder, the television role which shot him to fame in 1993.
One of his early roles was as narrator of Nineties erotica TV series Red Shoe Diaries.
In May 1998, Leoni, 42, tried to quash rumours her husband was a sex addict when she told Elle magazine she found the idea "very exciting".
He recently said in an interview that although he had never cheated on Leoni, he often wondered whether a man and a woman can be faithful to each other. "Every man feels that, don't they? But dare he admit it?," he said.
"You certainly know if you are profoundly interested in somebody else." He said that although he was no expert on marriage, it was love that kept him and Leoni together.
"It was early in the relationship, we were just all over each other - the sauna wasn't going to stop me. We just love each other.
"At the end of the day we sit and have a drink. We talk, she has a cigarette, I try to get her in the sauna again."
Other famous male actors who have received treatment for sex addiction include Michael Douglas and Billy Bob Thornton.
