Apparently, the “fornication” in “Californication” really got to the 48-year-old actor and long-time sex symbol David Duchovny, who checked into a rehab center to cure sex addiction.

Although rumors and speculations have been circulating ever since the actor became worldwide famous as the sexy non-believing agent Fox Mulder in hit TV series “X-files,” and lately, as an over-sexed struggling writer on Showtime's “Californication,” there was never an actual admission of any abnormal sexual behavior.

"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 to People magazine. No other explanations were given as to the nature and gravity of his condition, nor were there any suggestions of adultery or any other troubles in his marriage with actress Téa Leoni.

Father of two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6, Duchovny now says he just wants to deal with his addiction quietly. "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”

Of course, there were the occasional hints from the actor himself, like his recent statement of some steamy action in a Vancouver sauna, where David and his wife, were “just all over each other.”

Téa herself talked about her husband’s alleged sex addiction on various occasions, but always denied it, as in a 1998 interview, when she stated: “David was accused of being a sex addict, which I always found very exciting. And then I found out it wasn't true."

In the light of the latest events, Téa’s statement, although ten years old, only proves one thing, something that David was trying to tell us all along: “The Truth Is Out There.”