Dax Shepard stopped by Dr. Phil’s new podcast and revealed that he believes he was a sex addict! Click through the gallery for all the info.
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Dax, 44, appeared on Dr. Phil’s new show, Phil In The (Blanks). “I've had what I think could maybe be called a sex addiction at some point in my life,” the Parenthood actor confessed. “Not one I've had to seek treatment.”
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“There are worse addictions,” Dr. Phil joked, which Dax conceded.
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“I would have just said, ‘Oh I have sex with a lot of people. I like to do it, it's healthy, who cares? I'm not getting diseases, I'm single, whatever,’” Dax explained. But he realized he might have had a problem when he tried to cheat on his then-girlfriend.
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“She was away [and] we got in a fight over the phone,” he recalled. “I hung up the phone, I was driving in the car, and I immediately got horny.” He called it a “biochemical feeling.”
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“I’m just feeling authentically horny and I think, ‘Hmm, I'm going to text this girl I know,” he continued. “And there was a delay, and I just had this moment of clarity.”
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“That's suspicious. I just felt disempowered by my girlfriend and immediately I got horny,” he noted. He felt his brain was making him look for sex to get over the bad way he felt after the fight.
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What do you think of Dax’s sex addiction? Sound off in the comments!
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Dax, 44, appeared on Dr. Phil’s new show, Phil In The (Blanks). “I've had what I think could maybe be called a sex addiction at some point in my life,” the Parenthood actor confessed. “Not one I've had to seek treatment.”
“There are worse addictions,” Dr. Phil joked, which Dax conceded.
“I would have just said, ‘Oh I have sex with a lot of people. I like to do it, it's healthy, who cares? I'm not getting diseases, I'm single, whatever,’” Dax explained. But he realized he might have had a problem when he tried to cheat on his then-girlfriend.
“She was away [and] we got in a fight over the phone,” he recalled. “I hung up the phone, I was driving in the car, and I immediately got horny.” He called it a “biochemical feeling.”
“I’m just feeling authentically horny and I think, ‘Hmm, I'm going to text this girl I know,” he continued. “And there was a delay, and I just had this moment of clarity.”
“That's suspicious. I just felt disempowered by my girlfriend and immediately I got horny,” he noted. He felt his brain was making him look for sex to get over the bad way he felt after the fight.
What do you think of Dax’s sex addiction? Sound off in the comments!
