(AP)
David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication," has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction.
The 48-year-old worker 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 married woman and children as we deal with this position as a family."
Duchovny's publicizer, Flo Grace, confirmed the report, which first appeared on the Web land site People.com. She and Stein both declined further comment.
"All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this identical private time," the network said in a statement.
The second season of "Californication" begins Sept. 28.
Duchovny asterisked 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.
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