DOVER, Del.- Republican Delaware U.S. House candidate Scott Walker is again facing criticism over a Facebook Live video after apparently broadcasting last week from inside an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Sussex County.

Walker, who primarily kept his phone's camera facing himself during the Friday broadcast, is seen in the video entering a building and sitting down in a chair. A man's voice can be heard in the background during what Walker said was an A.A. meeting.

However, Walker said he did not warn anyone he was conducting a Facebook Live broadcast.

"I always made sure that the camera was pointing at me and I thought that there would be some inspirational message," he said, noting the speaker's talk reflected on dealing with addiction.

Nevertheless, cellphone use is typically discouraged or prohibited during group meetings held by groups like Alcoholics Anonymous.

The organization's web page also states that talks by A.A. members are not supposed to be recorded for later viewing.

"Realizing that anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, it is recommended that talks by A.A. members as members be given in person, rather than be video recorded in view of the temptation of video recording to place personalities before principles,” and thus encourage the development of a 'star' system in A.A.," the website reads.

Walker has previously classified himself as an alcoholic but does not currently believe he is one. He maintains he took precautions to ensure he did not record any A.A. members' faces or names during the broadcast and only wanted to shed light on the issue of addiction.

"I thought it was a very healthy thing to do," he said.

Many Facebook users disagreed and left comments accusing Walker of violating A.A. members' privacy.

"Live streaming A.A. meetings is a violation of trust," wrote one user.

The Rev. Ellen Temko at the People's Church in Dover, a ministry that hosts Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, was appalled by Walker's video.

"It just shouldn't have happened, it was just...I would definitely say self-serving," she said.

Walker said he was merely trying to stir discussion about people who deal with addiction, an issue he accused his election opponent, U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Delaware), of ignoring during her time in office.

"I felt that this form of group therapy deserves to be shared with the public and it's one of the tools we have to fight the opioid epidemic," he said.

Rochester's campaign team declined comment on Walker's video and would not directly respond to his allegations that she was not paying enough attention to the issue.

Instead, a campaign spokesman pointed to her support for things like a the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2017 and its $1.6 billion directed to the Community Health Program, advocacy to steer $2 million in grant funding to assist with opioid response and treatment in Delaware, and her role on a House opioid task force.

Last week's Facebook Live video was not Walker's first foray into controversial social media postings.

A months-old Facebook Live video in which Walker criticized the use of plus-sized models in retail marketing resurfaced shortly after the Milford-area businessman's victory over Republican Lee Murphy in September to win the GOP nomination for for U.S. House.

The post received a large amount of criticism but was followed in September by a number of Facebook posts in which Walker accused a number of state Democratic leaders of being racist.

In a now-deleted post, Walker wrote that U.S. Tom Carper (D-Delaware) was a "redneck" and referred to Blunt Rochester as an "Aunt Tom."

After significant backlash, the post was removed from Walker's page and he wrote “I apologize to our Congresswoman for the improper pejorative. I stand by my reasoning, however.”

That apology wasn't enough for the Delaware State Republican Committee, which formally distanced itself from Walker over the postings.

"He is not welcomed at any events we have...I do not want the Republican Party to promote his candidacy in any way," said Delaware GOP Chairman Mike Harrington Sr.

Walker, whose primary win was seen as a massive surprise by many political observers, remains defiant over the party's public rebuke of his candidacy. Only two years prior, he ran and lost as a Democrat in the primary against Blunt Rochester.

"I keep telling people I don't work for the Republican Party. I work for the people, and that's the only thing I care about," he said. "Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Buddhists---everybody's welcome in my tent."