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Tucker Carlson announced that he has checked into a rehab facility after recently revealed text messages showed him telling the truth.

In a heartfelt statement, the former television personality said that using the truth was “a problem I never thought I’d have. I always thought it was the kind of thing that happened to other people.”

Carlson said that he would remain at the facility, Alternatives Malibu, until he is “a hundred per cent truth-free.”

He also implored his fans not to judge him by the accurate statements that he made in his texts. “This is not who I am,” he said. “I’m going to beat this thing.”

In what some close associates of Carlson’s have taken as a hopeful sign, he has not checked into a rehab facility of any kind.