Scandal-soused Toronto Mayor Rob Ford states that “rehab is amazing” and that it reminds him of a football camp in a new interview with The Toronto Sun. The comments come shortly after two further controversial recordings leaked.
“Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of
like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid,” Ford
said.
He denounced his own alcohol abuse and said that he hoped he
could right his past misdeeds.
“I think alcohol is the worst drug of all. It makes you do
things that you would never do or say things that you
wouldn’t,” he said.
The two recordings leaked last week, Ford delivered a speech
deemed misogynistic by outraged critics, about Toronto City
Councillor Karen Stintz.
“I’d like to f-----g jam her (Stintz), but she doesn’t want
... I can’t talk like this...I’m so sorry,” Ford stated on
the recording.
In a further recording, Ford was smoking a substance that an
unnamed source declared was crack cocaine to a Toronto newspaper.
“It has been a week,” Ford told the Sun. “I told
Dougie, ‘I am going away’ and then started looking up rehab and
treatment centers,” Ford said, recalling the morning after.
Ford described his rehab meetings without divulging their
location. There are “eight people in a group,” then
sometimes four, “then there is a meal before we have some
one-on-one sessions,” he said.
The Toronto Globe and Mail reported on Tuesday that Ford had made
a decision to not enter the US despite having boarded a plane to
Chicago. Ford subsequently went “missing” after quietly returning
from the trip and it remained unknown where he went after his
plane turned around.
“He voluntarily withdrew his application to enter the
USA,” Consul General of Canada in Chicago, Roy Norton,
stated in an email to The Globe and Mail in an e-mail. Norton
added that the Toronto mayor “was not denied entry, per
se.”
Ford is still the mayor of Toronto. However, the City Council has
stripped him of a large proportion of his actual power. However,
Ford said he’ll be returning from rehab in time for election and
that he is “going to kick butt.”
“On Oct. 28, there will be no need to change the locks. There
will be no need to clean out my office because I am coming
back,” Ford assured.