NY Governor makes cocaine confession

25 Mar, 2008 08:38 / Updated 16 years ago

Days after admitting to cheating on his wife, the new Governor of New York has admitted to a drugs past.

David Paterson has confessed in a television interview to using cocaine in his 20s and smoking marijuana. He added he doesn't think he's used it since the 1970s. Governor Paterson is replacing Eliot Spitzer, who was forced to resign following a high-class hooker scandal.