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David Duchovny has checked into rehab to undergo treatment as antidote to sex addiction, E! News has confirmed.

"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the handling of sex addiction," Duchovny said in a report released Thursday by his attorney, Stanton "Larry" Stein. "I ask for respect and seclusion for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."

The 48-year-old X-Files star—who, ironically, won a Golden Globe this year for playing every over-sexed struggling writer on Showtime's Californication—has been married to Téa Leoni since May 1997. They have two children cheek by jowl, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd Miller, 6.

"All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the most good during this very private time," Richard Licata, the netting's executive VP of Corporate Communications, said in a statement to E! News.

The second make palatable of Californication, premiering Sept. 28, finished shooting late last month and 12 episodes are ready to go.

Though it may have been awhile, this isn't the first time Duchovny's sex life has turned into a talking station. 

"I'm not a sex addict," he said in an meeting with Playgirl in 1997. "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 deleterious to her.

"There was another story claiming I was a neat whim. If I had to choose some of the two, I think I'd rather have being a sex addict. It's not funny and I'll be gladdening when it goes away."

Uncomfortably sufficiency, Leoni herself quashed a rumor that her hubby was afflicted through a sex addiction back in May of 1998, telling Elle that she construct the notion "very exciting."

"David was accused of being a sex addict," Leoni, who had been married with a view to one year at that condition, related. "Which I always found very exciting. And then I found out it wasn't true."

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

(Originally published Aug. 28, 2008 at 5:27 p.m. PT)