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Mayor Rob Ford admitted Tuesday that he has smoked crack cocaine, saying it was probably “about a year” ago in a “drunken stupor,” a bombshell admission after months of denying that a video of him doing so exists.

In a surprise media scrum outside of his office, Ford asked the media to repeat a question asked to him in May.

“Do you smoke crack cocaine?” a reporter said.

“Exactly. Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,” Ford said. “I’ve made mistakes… all I can do is apologize and move on.”

“But, no, do I? Am I an addict? No.”

“Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.”

After five months of avoiding comment on the crack cocaine scandal, the mayor suggested he was just wasn’t asked about it.