Jon Hamm, the actor who portrays an alcohol-addicted advertising man on television, was recently released from a 30-day residential alcoholism treatment program. In a statement, a spokesman requested privacy for the 44-year-old Hamm and his partner, actress Jennifer Westfeldt.

Hamm achieved fame in 2007 for his portrayal of Don Draper, a womanizing alcoholic on the Emmy-winning series, Mad Men. He won a Golden Globe award for the role the next year and has received eleven Emmy nominations for his acting in that that show and 30 Rock.

Hamm’s stay was reportedly at the “high-end” Silver Hill Hospital, a psychiatric facility in New Canaan, Connecticut. The hospital is affiliated with Yale University.

Speaking last year about his show’s last final season airing this spring, Hamm said the ending is “super painful.” He said the show has been “a single constant” in his creative life. “I will never be able to have this again,” he said.

Hamm once remarked that Don Draper is “a fundamentally f—– up human being.” Deadline Hollywood, an entertainment web site, referred to Hamm’s rehab adventure as “a surreal case of life imitating art.” Nellie Andreeva, a columnist for the publication, wrote that Hamm’s rehab brings about the subject of “the toll of playing an anti-hero.” She pointed out the case of the late James Gandolfini, who played the mafia boss Tony Soprano on The Sopranos. She wrote this his role was a punishing one, requiring “a daily descent” into the character’s violent and sociopathic psyche.

Hamm played Winnie the Pooh in first grade and, by 16, was cast as Judas in Godspell. He graduated with an English degree from the University of Missouri in 1993 and returned to his prep school in St. Louis, to teach eighth-grade acting. The man known to some as “the last alpha male” moved to Los Angeles in 1995 with his automobile and $150.