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Renata Ford revealed startling details about her personal life while she was the “isolated” wife of the late Rob Ford at her sentencing hearing for impaired driving conviction this week.

Renata had impaired driving offences previously in ‘97 and 2005 but received a suspended sentence, $1,100 fine, three years probation and a two-year driving ban for her third conviction.

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She was caught drunk driving on Dec. 28, 2016, after she had a minor collision with a parked car in an LCBO parking lot that is a five-minute drive from her Etobicoke home. The crime occurred nine months after Renata’s husband, father and favourite aunt died.

But her latest counselling sessions “helped her realize the damaging effects of alcohol abuse.”

“These sessions also provided her ways to cope and manage stressful situations, especially with her husband’s notoriety and life in the public spotlight,” the report from her counselling centre, the Prometheum Institute stated.