Crack-smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford thinks “rehab is amazing” and compared it to his childhood memories as a football player.
A second video of Ford smoking crack was the final straw for the drug-loving mayor, who checked himself into an unknown in-patient rehab facility last week.
“I feel great,” Ford said in an interview with the Toronto Sun on Wednesday. “Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid.”
Instead of working up a sweat defending his record at a heated press conference, Ford now spends his days working out or attending meetings with a group of eight fellow addicts. He’s even made some time to chat with his constituents.
“I am getting help but I still want to help,” Ford said, adding that he is still planning to run for, and win, re-election in October.
“I will do well, he said. “There will be no need to clean out my office because I am coming back.”
Crack cocaine wasn’t the mayor’s only vice — he was also known to hit the bottle heavily.
“I think alcohol is the worst drug of all,” he told the Sun. “It makes you do things that you would never do or say things that you wouldn’t.”
His choice to seek help comes after months of embarrassing public missteps and denials of needing help. But Ford said rehab has been the “best decision” he’s ever made.
“I said to myself, ‘Am I going to try to cover it up for the rest of your life or deal with it and go to professional help?’” he said. “I decided to get help.”