Rob Ford walks back crack-smoking admission, now says he ‘doesn’t know’
Posted January 7, 2016 10:39 am.
Last Updated January 7, 2016 10:45 am.
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Coun. Rob Ford is walking back his bombshell admission that he smoked crack cocaine, telling the Toronto Sun he doesn’t know if he took the drug or not.
He also claims he has never seen the video that shows him inhaling from a small glass pipe, adding he would like to see the video, just so he knows what happened.
Ford, who responded to a CityNews tweet as well as a slew of other questions on social media on Wednesday, gave an interview to the Toronto Sun later that day.
When asked about his drug use, including crack cocaine, he said, “I don’t know what it was.”
“This is why I want to see the videos to see for sure. People who have seen them say I was completely out of it. As embarrassed as I am, I have no idea what I did.”
Ford’s sister Kathy Ford has said she smoked crack with her brother.
The scandal broke in May of 2013, when the Toronto Star and U.S.-based news site Gawker reported that Ford, then the mayor, was seen on the video smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. He was also making racist and homophobic comments. The two news agencies said the video was being shopped around by a group of men allegedly involved in the drug trade.
In November of that year, after months of denial, Ford admitted he smoked crack cocaine while in one of his “drunken stupors.”
Ford also said he had been truthful with reporters.
“I wasn’t lying,” he told reporters. “You didn’t ask the correct questions. No, I’m not an addict and no I do not do drugs.”
