August 30, 2008 | Celeb Watch

David Duchovny addicted to sex

Some stars like to drink. Some do drugs. Others, like 48-year-old David Duchovny, are into sex. Like really, really into sex! So much so that Duchovny has checked himself into rehab to undergo treatment for sex addiction.

"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction," Duchovny said in a statement released Thursday. "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."

Back in 1997 the actor denied any obsession with sex during an interview with Playgirl. "I'm not a sex addict," he said. "I have never been to those meetings. It's hurtful to my family and if I was involved with a woman in a monogamous relationship, it would be hurtful to her."

"David was accused of being a sex addict," his wife Tea Leoni once said. "Which I always found very exciting. And then I found out it wasn't true.

"Men are like bulls," she continued. "They gotta get the new cow. Maybe you've got to get the bull after he's had a lot of cows, so you might just be the last new one."

Duchovny just won a Golden Globe this year for playing an over-sexed writer on Showtime's 'Californication' (a second season starts Sept. 28) proving that art truly does imitate life.

Shame he wasn't addicted to gay sex.