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The mayor had responded to her accusations on Friday in a written statement calling them “absolutely, completely false,” but Sunday marked the first time Ford spoke in public about the alleged incident.

Ford used his radio on Sunday to hit back at a former election rival, telling his listeners the allegations were “not true” and questioning whether his accuser was “playing with a full deck.”

“I don’t want to waste my time anymore on this,” he said.

The mayor also thanked two Richmond Hill councillors who came forward to say they heard Thomson talking about attempting to get a photo of the mayor’s hand on her assistant’s rear end. Thomson later said she was seeking evidence to corroborate her story.

In her radio interview on Monday, Thomson also suggested Ford was high on cocaine when he allegedly grabbed her buttocks.

“Did you think that he was on cocaine, is that what you had said to our producer?” one of the KiSS DJs asked Thomson on the air.

“I thought he was, yes, but I don’t know,” she said. “What are the signs of cocaine use, I looked it up [on Google]. And it’s, you know, sweaty, talking quickly, out of it, arrogant. Like all these things were on there.”

Ford’s office has not yet responded to a request for comment on Thomson’s drug allegations.

Later in the day, Thomson said she stood by what she told the radio station.

“I stand by my words and if I have to stand up in court I will,” she told reporters. “I looked up the symptoms and it looked like it was cocaine use, it could have been anything like that, I’m not sure what it is. I’ve also read that diabetes could have some odd effects. I’m not sure what was wrong with him, but there was definitely something wrong with him that night.”

Ford was acting “erratic” and “arrogant,” which was unusual for him, Thomson said.

When Thomson was asked if she’d ever taken cocaine herself, she said she didn’t know, as she spent time on the street in her youth.

National Post, with files from Armina Ligaya