A post horse for an American style retailer featuring David Duchovny has been pulled after the Californication star admitted himself to rehab for sex addiction.
The X-Files role player starred on the posting for Johnston & Murphy and was featured conspicuously in the window of its Madison Avenue computer memory in New York.
But it was taken down following the actor's admission on Friday that he was addicted to sex.
"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction," Duchovny said in a statement released through his lawyer, Stanton "Larry" Stein.
"I ask for respect and privacy for my married woman and children as we deal with this spot as a family."
At the time Duchovny was hired to star in the retailer's promotion, the Tennessee-based company aforesaid they were "thrilled" for the actor to be involved.
"David embodies success and confidence, along with a great sense of stylus, communicating the ideal figure for the Johnston & Murphy brand."
But when a customer asked what had happened to Duchovny's picture, a shop clerk said, "We got the call from corporate this morning to take him down," the New York Post reported.
Duchovny�has been married since 1997 to actress Tea Leoni, with whom he has a nine-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son.
He made his name in long-running sci-fi show up The X-Files, and plays a sex-obsessed writer in controversial demonstrate Californication.
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