Crack-smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford says rehab is 'amazing'
Troubled civic chief Rob Ford tells newspaper sessions remind him of children's football camp
Toronto mayor Rob Ford told a Canadian newspaper yesterday that "rehab is amazing," adding that it's a lot like the football summer camp he attended as a child.
The reported comments came as speculation swirled over the whereabouts of the crack-smoking official after it was reported that US border agents thwarted his efforts to enter a rehab programme in Chicago.
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Ford had flown out of Toronto on a chartered private jet on May 1, destined for a US treatment facility, his lawyer, Dennis Morris, said.
But on Tuesday it emerged that after landing at a Chicago airport he had a brief discussion with officials and decided not to try to officially enter the US. The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that instead, he flew back to Canada.
Ford, 44, took a leave of absence from city hall in the middle of his re-election campaign last week to enter rehab for drug and alcohol abuse after another video surfaced showing him allegedly smoking crack recently.
"I feel great," he told the Toronto Sun. "Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid."
The mayor described daily meetings with four to eight people, including "two doctors, a captain of industry and a professional athlete," and "then there is a meal before we have some one-on-one sessions".