( CNN ) Actor Jon Hamm , who plays hard-drinking Don Draper on the hit AMC show `` Mad Men , '' has recently completed a 30-day stint in rehab for alcohol abuse , TMZ reports . The celebrity-news site says Hamm checked himself into the high-end 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 , '' said representatives for Hamm in a statement to TMZ , People and other media outlets . `` They have asked for privacy and sensitivity going forward . '' The news comes less than two weeks before `` Mad Men , '' which explores the lives of New York advertising executives in the 1960s , begins its final eight-episode run on April 5 . Filming for the final episodes was completed months ago . Missouri native Hamm , 44 , toiled in near-obscurity for years in Hollywood before finding fame in 2007 as the tormented , womanizing Draper , for which he won a Golden Globe for best actor in a TV drama . He has been nominated for an acting Emmy seven times for `` Mad Men '' but has never won .
Report : Actor Jon Hamm of `` Mad Men '' has completed a 30-day stint in rehab for alcohol abuse . AMC 's `` Mad Men '' begins its final eight-episode run on April 5 .