Jon Hamm Secretly Completes Rehab Stint

Jon Hamm has stealthily

completed a rehab program for alcohol. According to reports, he checked into Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut, at the end of February.

"With the support of his longtime partner Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm recently completed treatment for his struggle with alcohol addiction," a rep for the star tells The Insider With Yahoo in a statement. "They have asked for privacy and sensitivity going forward."

The 44-year-old actor is best known for playing chain-smoking, booze-loving ad man Don Draper on AMC's hit Mad Men, which is just about to air its final season. In past interviews, Hamm has been careful to separate himself from his character.

"I don’t drink as much as Don Draper," Hamm said during an interview in 2012. "I would be unconscious if I did." In that same chat with the Mail on Sunday, Jon said his portrayal of Draper was inspired by his father.

"My dad was very much of the same era as Don. He was very smart, good with people, everybody’s friend. But he also had a dark side to him. He was a sad guy… Like Draper, he was a drinker — for a long time. But he was also a diabetic so that didn’t really mix well. He was sick for years and had to quit."

Hamm covers the April issue of GQ, and in excerpts released this week (note: the sit-down interview would have been done farther in advance) he talks about Don Draper's destructive behavior.

"I'm the guy who lives with the guy every day, and I'm like, 'No, no, no, no, no,'" he says of his character's bad actions. "But I also get the thing in popular culture, American culture, where you see a broken thing and go, 'I want to fix that. I want to shape that. I want to cure that.'"

Jennifer Westfeldt also talked to the publication about the toll portraying this character has taken on Hamm. "It's a confusing juxtaposition,” she notes. "I think the darkness of Don has weighed heavily on Jon, despite it being the role of a lifetime and the opportunity that gave him the career of his dreams."

The season 7 Mad Men premiere party is slated to take place tomorrow in Los Angeles.