Is it life imitating prowess, or an actor taking his "method" a little too far? Whatever the case, David Duchovny, wHO plays a sex-crazed writer on Showtime's "Californication," seems to be having trouble breaking part; the actor is currently being treated for sexual urge addiction at a rehab facility.
(The Associated Press)
"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the intervention of sexuality addiction," he said in a instruction released Thursday through his lawyer, Stanton "Larry" Stein. "I ask for deference and seclusion for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."
Duchovny, 48, has been marital since 1997 to actress Tea Leoni, with whom he has a 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.
Showtime, which will begin airing the show's second base season in September, released a assertion after Duchovny's announcement, expression, "All of us at Showtime bid David and his category the topper during this very individual time."
In January, Duchovny won a Golden Globe for best laughable actor for his lead role as Hank Moody, an oversexed single dad and novelist struggling with writer's parry, on "Californication."
The show's Web site describes Moody as a adult male who "enjoys life and owns all his various vices -- drink, drugs and women -- with a novel sense of honesty and unapologetic frankness. He's retention it together while falling apart, and he doesn't mind it one bit."
Starting with the series' number 1 episode, which opens with Moody fantasizing about a nun acting oral gender, the evidence is rife with romps, one-night stands, threesomes and, in one episode, a post-coital vomit session. Hence, the word "fornication" in the title.
Could Duchovny have taken his character home base with him? Psychoanalyst Bethany Marshall aforesaid it's more likely the actor brought his dependence to the set.
"I think it stems from a personality disorder that was pre-existing," Marshall, who has not treated the worker, told ABCNews.com. "Sex habituation is a serious trouble. Adult fortune don't turn you into a sex activity addict. It's factors from childhood."
Where a sex addict works, however, can solidify the dependency. "Just like an alcoholic might get a job in bar and a gambler power get chore in Vegas, sex addicts seeks out environments where they can practice their addiction under the radiolocation, so that it doesn't come to others' attention," Marshall said.
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