Hasselhoff home after alocohol relapse

US actor David Hasselhoff has been released from hospital after being treated for alcoholism.

“David had a brief relapse and immediately recognised the importance of addressing it with the assistance of his doctors,” his publicist Judy Katz said in a statement.

The 55-year-old former Baywatch and Knight Rider star was admitted to the Los Angeles hospital on Tuesday and was released yesterday, she said.

In June, a judge ordered Hasselhoff not to drink alcohol as part of a custody dispute between the actor and his ex-wife, Pamela Bach, over their two teenage daughters.

Bach and Hasselhoff were married in December 1989, and divorced last year.