Pal: Duchovny Addicted to Porn

Web obsession prompted actor to enter rehab
By Elizabeth Wolff,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 2, 2008 11:10 AM CDT
Pal: Duchovny Addicted to Porn
David Duchovny is undergoing rehab for a sex addiction.   (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)

David Duchovny entered rehab for sex addiction because of a longstanding addiction to Internet pornography, not because he had cheated on wife Tea Leoni, a friend tells Fox News. The X-Files star, whose character on Showtime's Californication is a sex addict, went public with his demons because a fellow patient had tipped off the media. (More David Duchovny stories.)

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