Celebrities Who Battled Sex Addiction

David Duchovny

Californication star David Duchovny, well-known for taking part in a sex-obsessed author on TV, introduced in 2008 that he was “voluntarily” coming into rehab for intercourse habit, per a press release from his lawyer printed by BBC News. “I ask for respect and privateness for my spouse and kids as we take care of this example as a household,” added the X Information actor, who was married to now-ex Tea Leoni on the time. The couple shares two kids, West, now 25, and Kyd, now 22.

Andra Day

The highly effective Rise Up singer, Golden Globe winner, and Oscar nominee for her portrayal of Billie Vacation in America vs. Billie Vacation emphasised in a canopy interview with InStyle that she very a lot didn’t wish to concentrate on Vacation’s sexuality and as a substitute wished to zero in on her influence on the music business. A part of the rationale for this was due to Day’s personal previous along with her sexuality.

“I didn’t need any aspect of sexualization. I had come out of one thing in my very own life — coping with porn habit, intercourse habit,” she stated. “I’m being very, very candid with you as a result of I’m not the one one. However I knew I wished all of that very a lot gone.”

Dean McDermott

Actor and actuality star Dean McDermott cheated on his then-wife, Tori Spelling, again in 2013, and shortly left for rehab for “well being and private points,” Individuals reported on the time, per the LA Times. These points had been later discovered to be intercourse habit, as E! News and different retailers later reported. “I’m really sorry for the errors I’ve made and for the ache I’ve triggered my household,” McDermott stated in a press release on the time.

In 2014, Spelling opened up about how the affair affected her, displaying how deeply intercourse habit can harm family members. The Beverly Hills, 90210 actress informed Us Weekly that McDermott “was my soulmate, however he fully broke my coronary heart. It makes you not belief something that’s occurred in your relationship.”

Tiger Woods

After his infidelities had grow to be very public in 2009, golf icon Tiger Woods underwent therapy for intercourse habit. Based on his swing coach, Hank Haney, Woods stated as soon as he completed remedy, “What I discovered is that for the remainder of my life I can’t have intercourse with somebody except I genuinely really feel one thing for them. If I do, I’m placing myself in jeopardy.”

Robbie Williams

British pop star Robbie Williams as soon as stated he was “addicted” to having intercourse with strangers, in line with the Daily Mail. “I didn’t know whether or not I’d have the ability to give that up,” he stated in 2017, the outlet reported.

Williams has been married to Ayda Subject since 2010, and is ready to speak in confidence to his spouse about his former proclivities. “I used to be saying to her final evening, it’s actually particular that we’re round plenty of actually good trying folks, during the summer time – and I really feel no longing to be as much as the nefarious stuff.” Subject, Williams added, has been instrumental in his restoration. “She’s actually empathetic, actually form, extremely sensible and really, very humorous – and I belief her,” he defined. “The factor with intercourse with different folks could be very very like cocaine. I’m not on the lookout for cocaine any extra and subsequently I don’t discover it.”

Charlie Sheen

In 1995, Charlie Sheen testified that he spent $53,000 on “sexual companies” from intercourse staff, and in 2000, he informed Maxim that if he needed to guess, he’d say he’d slept with 5,000 girls by that time. Over a decade later in 2015, the actor publicly introduced he’d been HIV-positive for 4 years.

Rob Lowe

After a intercourse tape was launched within the Nineteen Eighties of Rob Lowe and two girls — one in every of which was discovered to solely have been 16 — the actor went to rehab and has been sober ever since.

Throughout a 2019 look on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagel Present, Lowe shared, “Individuals discuss it, I’m going, ‘I feel it’s the most effective factor that ever occurred to me.’ Truthfully, I do, ’trigger it received me sober. Sober received me married. I’ve been married 29 years, and I’ve two nice sons. I don’t suppose any of that occurs with out going via that scandal. I actually don’t.”

Jada Pinkett Smith

On an episode of Crimson Desk Discuss, Jada Pinkett Smith revealed she battled with intercourse habit, explaining, “Once I was youthful, I positively suppose I had a intercourse habit of some form, sure, that every little thing may very well be mounted by intercourse.”

The actress continued, “I’m a binger, and I all the time have to look at myself and I can simply get obsessive about issues. It’s not what you’re doing however the way you’re with it. Why you’re doing it. It’s the habits that’s connected to it as a result of if you wish to have plenty of intercourse, that’s nice, however why are you having all that intercourse? That’s what you’ve received to have a look at.”

Lamar Odom

Lamar Odom opened up about his near-fatal intercourse habit in his memoir, Darkness to Light. “I’ve been obsessive about intercourse for so long as I can bear in mind,” he wrote. He referred to his many infidelities throughout his marriage to Khloé Kardashian, explaining, “I wished to take it again, however you possibly can’t. [I] wished to cover it. However that sick sin was arduous for me to cover … I had an issue.”

The previous NBA participant informed People that his intercourse habit was a set off for drug use “Since you double up on [that] good feeling.” Odom finally calls his 2015 overdose his “wake-up name,” and though he admitted he nonetheless struggles, he additionally stated, “I can’t go into the darkness. Ever once more.”

Colin Farrell

Previous to coming into rehab for his intercourse habit, Irish actor Colin Farrell was steadily known as “the Lusty Leprechaun.” He’d been sober for almost 10 years when he informed Elle in 2014 that having intercourse for the primary time after changing into sober was “one of the vital terrifying moments of my life … As a result of I used to be simply used to drunkenness and darkish rooms and golf equipment and bathrooms and wherever.”

Mike Caussin

Ex-NFL participant Mike Caussin famously imploded his marriage with actress and singer Jana Kramer attributable to his intercourse habit. After greater than a dozen affairs and a years-long stint in intercourse rehab, Kramer filed for divorce after discovering out Caussin had cheated on her but once more.

Jennifer Lewis

Black-ish star Jenifer Lewis lived with undiagnosed bipolar dysfunction for years and believes she developed a intercourse habit as a option to cope. In her 2017 memoir, The Mom of Black Hollywood, the previous Broadway star stated the “rush” of acting on stage left her with a void after the crowds went residence. “The applause coming over the footlights was like a tsunami in sluggish movement,” she wrote, per an excerpt printed in People. “The crash after the present, I guarantee you, is simply as intense. Let’s simply say that publish present I had a form of behavior of intercourse serving as an evening cap. I used to be Cleopatra, Pam Grier, Marilyn Monroe, and Jezebel rolled into one. For me, nothing might lengthen the joys of a standing ovation like nice intercourse with a beautiful man.”

With assist from her therapist, Lewis discovered that her intercourse habit “wasn’t actually concerning the intercourse. It was concerning the unresolved psychological issues that triggered me ache. Intercourse was merely my painkiller.”

Jesse James

After 4 girls got here ahead claiming Jesse James had had a foursome with them, the TV character — then married to Sandra Bullock — entered rehab. In 2010, he defined throughout a Nightline interview, “I grew up with an enormous quantity of disgrace and concern and abandonment on my shoulders from a really younger age and I feel, you already know, the best way my thoughts rationalized [cheating], ‘Effectively, you already know, I would as nicely do no matter I can to love run her off trigger she goes to seek out out what I’m anyway and depart me anyway.’”

James continued, “I don’t suppose I’ve a intercourse habit the place I’m operating round attempting to have intercourse with everybody and I can’t cease… I feel I do issues to sabotage my life, together with having extramarital affairs, texting, overworking myself, injuring myself, doing stunts and silly issues. I feel I do plenty of issues in my life that I shouldn’t be doing that aren’t conducive to being an ideal husband, you already know, and the affairs are simply one in every of them.”

Scott Disick

Scott Disick revealed he has a intercourse habit in a 2017 episode of Conserving Up With the Kardashians, exclaiming “I’m a intercourse addict! I’m a f*cked up, horrible intercourse addict,” when his ex Kourtney Kardashian and her household questioned why he secretly introduced a lady alongside on their household trip to Costa Rica, per Us Weekly. Disick later walked again the feedback in a confessional, per Yahoo!, explaining, “Saying I’m a intercourse addict is truthfully the very first thing that popped into my head. I don’t actually suppose it’s my precise downside, however, you already know, it’s positively not simple listening to everybody assault me. … I don’t know, actually, what else to say.”

Nicole Narain

In 2009, Playboy mannequin Nicole Narain went on Intercourse Rehab with Dr. Drew to handle her habit to intercourse and masturbation. Talking on The Joy Behar Show quickly after, Narain defined that she needed to “strive actually arduous” to not take into consideration masturbating. In the future, she shared, she “couldn’t get off the bed…as a result of I used to be simply, it was a relentless factor. That was an exhausting day. It was like, I didn’t even wish to eat meals as a result of that was my meals for the day.”

Narain described the habit as exhausting and scary. “I strive very arduous to not have any triggers round me the place I might really feel like I must masturbate as we speak.”

Amber Smith

Former Sports activities Illustrated swimwear mannequin Amber Smith additionally sought assist for her intercourse and love habit on Intercourse Rehab, explaining by way of Oprah that it stemmed from being deserted by her father when she was 3 years previous.

“I get up on daily basis, and I’m going boy looking to get successful of the man,” she stated by way of Oprah. “I really feel like I’m falling aside. This can be a thousand instances extra fearful than drug rehab.”