X-Files star,David Duchovny has checked into rehab for sex addiction, his lawyer Stanton “Larry” Stein confirmed. Duchovny is asking for for respect and privacy for his  wife and children as they deal with this situation as a family.

David married actress Ta Leoni in 1997. They have two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6.

Duchovny, 48, rose to fame starring as the conspiracy-minded FBI agent Fox Mulder on Fox network’s paranormal thriller “The X-Files,” which spawned two big-screen spinoffs.

He won a Golden Globe Award last January, as best comic actor for playing an oversexed single dad and novelist struggling with writer’s block in the Showtime series “Californication.”

Well, well sex can be addictive but its a positive thing he wants to have treatment..