TORONTO

Embattled Mayor Rob Ford will take to the airwaves Sunday for his weekly radio show after a scandalous week that would be any politician’s worst nightmare.

Ford’s once brazen administration has been rocked by Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair’s revelation that investigators now have a video in which Ford appears to be smoking crack cocaine.

Newstalk 1010 confirmed Saturday that the radio show will be on the air and broadcasting live from their studios, but after a week of bombshells it’s hard to imagine what Ford and his brother Councillor Doug Ford will boast about during their two-hour radio spot.

No matter what the Fords say unchallenged on the radio Sunday, there is no doubt this past week has been the mayor’s most controversy-filled since he took office in December 2010.

Ford teeters on the cusp of total political and personal ruin, his allies are urging him to take a leave of absence, the city’s four newspapers have called on him to resign, political enemies joke privately that Ford Nation is now a failed state, the story has made international headlines and U.S. late-night host Jay Leno even mocked the affair on the Tonight Show.

The week started with the Fords on the radio last Sunday, marking the one-year countdown to the 2014 municipal election.

“It is a year until we’re back at the polls, folks, and I’m just drooling. I am absolutely salivating for this next election,” Ford told listeners.

A day later, he invited reporters to tour his City Hall office decked out as a haunted house for Halloween.

Doing his best Count Dracula impression, Ford hammed it up as he toured reporters through the darkened and decorated office — dubbed the House of Franken-Ford — as the sounds of screams and scary music played.

By Halloween, the mayor’s office had become a personal house of horrors as all of his skeletons began to topple out.

In a press conference at police headquarters, Blair confirmed Thursday that investigators have retrieved two videos including the infamous video that shows Ford smoking what appears to be crack.

“I’m disappointed,” Blair said when asked how he felt when he watched the video.

Blair’s statement provided proof the video exists and started the clock ticking toward a day, perhaps in the near future, when it may be made public as part of the court case against alleged drug dealer Sandro Lisi, Ford’s friend now charged with extortion.

Lisi is accused of threatening violence against two accused gang members between May 16 and May 18 so he could obtain the alleged crack video. That was around the same time news of the notorious video first broke on Gawker.com.

Ford had claimed in May that the video didn’t exist, publicly calling the allegations “ridiculous” and privately assuring those tasked with defending him that there was no video.

Now his words and his actions — many of them detailed in hundreds of pages of police surveillance also released Thursday — had all come back to haunt him.

After clashing with photographers and cameramen outside his house Thursday morning, a pale-faced Ford arrived at City Hall and delivered a brief but defiant statement.

“I think everybody has seen these allegations against me,” Ford said. “I wish I could come out and defend myself. Unfortunately, I can’t because it is before the courts and that’s all I can say right now.”

He then dug in his heels — clad in the cowboy boots he bought during last month’s business mission to Austin, Texas — at any thought of stepping aside or resigning

“No, no, you know what, I have no reason to resign,” Ford said. “I’m going to go back, I’m going to return my phone calls, I’m going to be out doing what the people elected me to do and that’s save taxpayers money and run a great government.”

Ford woke up Friday morning to all four of Toronto’s daily newspapers — including the Toronto Sun — calling on him to resign.

He appeared jovial midday Friday, emerging from a Ford family huddle at his mother’s house, then avoided City Hall where media were waiting to demand more answers to a growing list of unanswered questions.

Behind the scenes, Ford is being urged by — but has yet to listen to — his senior office staff and right-wing councillors to step aside temporarily and let Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly take over for a short period.

Despite the ongoing fight by Ford’s inner circle to guide him down whatever slim path to victory remains, it is hard to see a way he can survive the scandal that blew wide open.

As Councillor Michael Thompson — who has called on Ford to resign — put it, it’s hard to understand how to “put the genie back in the bottle.”

Ford’s remaining allies aren’t giving up.

Doug Ford went on radio Friday and echoed calls from the mayor’s lawyer for Blair to release the video and let the public see it.

The Etobicoke North (Ward 2) councillor also accused Blair of “crossing the line” in his comments around the video — a sign there is still some fight left in the Fords.

Late Friday, another Ford skeleton emerged that had long been whispered about.

Details of Rob Ford’s boozy St. Patrick’s Day 2012 party inside the mayor’s office popped out. A City Hall security e-mail released by the city noted Ford was “intoxicated” that night and had wandered down to the foyer with a half-empty bottle of brandy.

Sources provided further details to the Toronto Sun of that night, including Ford knocking a staffer off his feet, smashing his cellphone against the wall, crying uncontrollably and tossing business cards and racial slurs at a cab driver.

A mayor unmasked — appropriate for the day after Halloween — but the horror show has yet to end.

— With files from Chris Doucette and Sam Pazzano