The widow of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford has been given a suspended sentence, a two-year driving ban and fined $1,100 for an impaired driving conviction.

Renata Ford was also ordered to perform 100 hours of community service that must be completed within 18 months. She can’t drive with any alcohol in her blood for three years, and she must have an interlocking device installed on any vehicles she owns.

“She has started to take more control of her life,” Justice Ted Kelly said at Ford’s court hearing Wednesday afternoon.

“I’m truly sorry for my actions,” Ford, 47, told the judge.

The Crown had earlier asked the judge to jail Ford for 45 days after she pleaded guilty in October to a 2016 charge. She has two previous convictions — in 1997, when she refused to provide a breath sample, and in 2005 for impaired driving.

But Ford’s lawyer argued she should avoid jail time because she was remorseful and didn’t cause extensive damage. “It was an excellent result,” Dennis Morris said outside court, noting that his client has already done 100 hours of community service.

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“The pressure that she had for many, many years are no longer there. She is a much better and stronger individual.”

Ford’s car “rubbed up against” another vehicle at the entrance of the Humbertown Plaza on the Kingsway near Royal York Rd., on Dec. 28, 2016, according to an agreed statement of facts filed in court.

When Ford pulled over to a parking spot, people came by to help her out of her car and she sat down on the curb. Ford told witnesses that she needed a cigarette and asked them not to call the police before walking over to an LCBO parking lot.

The LCBO manager refused to sell her a bottle of wine, according to the statement, and Ford returned to the passenger seat in her car. Police came by and she failed a breathalyzer test.

Even though no one was injured in this case, “there needs to be denunciation,” reflected by a jail sentence, Crown attorney Brady Donohue told the court, asking for a 45-day jail sentence and a driving prohibition of one to three years.

The fact that Ford has previous convictions is significant, Donohue said, adding, “Light sentences have not worked.”

As a mitigating factor, Donohue noted that Ford has put a locking device in her car “by her own volition.”

Morris argued that Ford shouldn’t be sent to jail, citing high profile impaired driving cases involving former Maple Leafs captain Rob Ramage and Marco Muzzo, where the result was carnage and erratic driving.

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Ford’s circumstances are different since there wasn’t a collision and there wasn’t terrible driving, Morris argued.

Morris told the judge that Ford accepts responsibility and is remorseful. She received counselling and is amenable to further assistance, Morris said.

She’s a widow, and her sole source of income to support two children is the late mayor’s municipal pension, he added.

“That unhealthy behaviour is gone,” Morris said, adding there’s no need for her to be jailed given the adversity she has overcome.

“She has a very positive attitude in life,” and is becoming more involved in the life of her children after being reclusive during her late husband’s mayoralty, Morris said.

Ford had extended periods of staying clean before “ she made a terrible error in judgment when she decided to drive after consuming alcohol,” Morris said.

It was a tough time because it was the first Christmas after the deaths of her husband and her father.

“She is not a danger to reoffend,” Morris said, reading from a pre-sentence report.

Morris suggested that a two-year driving ban was the appropriate sentence.

“She lived in a terrible chaotic world . . . being the spouse of an individual targeted by the media for many, many years,” Morris told the judge.

Renata Ford is suing her brother-in-law Doug Ford for $16.5 million, alleging he has deprived her of millions of dollars, including shares in the family business and a life insurance policy left behind to support his family. None of the allegations have been proven in court.

Asked outside court what she thought about Doug Ford’s election victory, she smiled and said, “No comment.”