E! News has confirmed that Californication star, David Duchovny, has checked himself into rehab for his sex addiction.

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

This 48-year-old actor, who ironically plays an over-sexed struggling writer on Showtimes hit show, has been married to actress Tea Leoni for 11 years and they have two children Madeline West and Kyd Miller.

“All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this very private time,” Richard Licata, the network’s executive VP of Corporate Communications, said in a statement to E! News.

The second season is set to premiere on September 28, and all 12 episodes have already been shot and are ready to air.

This is not the first time Duchovny’s ’sexual appetite’ has been questioned. In an interview for Playgirl magazine in 1997, he said,

“I’m not a sex addict. 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.

“There was another story claiming I was a neat freak. If I had to choose one of the two, I think I’d rather be a sex addict. It’s not funny and I’ll be glad when it goes away.”

Uncomfortable as it was for Leoni, she tried to squash the rumors in Elle magazine back in 1998.

“David was accused of being a sex addict,” Leoni, who had been married for one year at that point, 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.”

Well, I hope rehab really helps David because I really like those two and it’s sad to see (what seemed to be) a perfect couple go through such a battle.