Golf star Woods, 34, is reportedly halfway through a six-week course for sex addicts at the Pine Grove addiction clinic in Hattiesburg, Mississsippi. The centre, run by one of the world’s leading authorities on sex addiction, Dr Patrick Carnes, offers classes in ‘shame reduction’ and ‘setting sexual boundaries’
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Early on in his career, Brand silenced a heckler, who questioned his sexuality, by shouting: “I’m a heterosexual, sir, and one day I’ll show you the statistics and I’ll make you weep.” His recent autobiography, My Booky Wook, spelt out exactly what he meant by this: he recounted sleeping with countless women, some of them prostitutes, as well as being treated for sex addiction
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Maybe it was playing a sex-obsessed writer in Californication that was the final straw, but actor Duchovny finally admitted his sex addiction in 2008. “I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction,” the former X-files star said, through his lawyer. In 1997, however, he said: “I’m not a sex addict. It’s a very funny term, and we can laugh it off, but it’s not funny when you see it in the press”
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Despite going to rehab, Halle Berry’s ex has recently quibbled over claims he was addicted to sex, telling New York Magazine: “In retrospect, it’s not what I would label my situation.” So why did he go to rehab? Simple – his mother-in-law made him. “It was presented to me that for the marriage to have a shot, this is what you need to do . . . I went and heard other people’s stories and realised this is really not my struggle”
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When the News of the World ran a story on how the peer had taken part in orgies, they also printed his apology to his wife: “I have been fighting sex addiction for my whole adult life. There is no cure and self-help is rarely successful”
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