X-Files star David Duchovny, who plays a womanising writer on the controversial television series Californication, has entered a facility for treatment of sex addiction.
Duchovny, 48, sprang to fame starring as the conspiracy-minded FBI agent Fox Mulder on Fox network's extrasensory thriller The X-Files, which spawned two big-screen spinoffs�- one of which screened in theatres recently.
He has been matrimonial 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 aforementioned in a statement released through his lawyer, Stanton "Larry" Stein.
"I ask for respect and privacy for my married woman and children as we deal with this place as a family."
There were no further details in the statement, which was first reported on People.com.
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 the Showtime series Californication.
The first sequence of the series caused controversy in New Zealand�over�a dream chronological sequence involving a sex act with a nun.
Advertisers pulled out of the show, which screened on TV3, after labelling it 'porn'.
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