Mayor Rob Ford repeatedly refused Monday morning to say whether he has smoked crack cocaine.

Facing an unusual grilling from AM640 host John Oakley, the man who made him famous as a city councillor, Ford repeated his Sunday apology for public drunkenness and would not answer directly when Oakley asked twice if he has used crack.

“I’m not a drug addict,” he responded. “I’m not an alcoholic.”

He said later: “I can assure you, Johnny, I do not use drugs; I drink.”

He said he would not be able to “show up to work every single day” if he were an addict. When Oakley told him there are “functioning alcoholics,” Ford accused him of being “sarcastic.”

Ford suggested he would not resign or take a leave of absence even if there were a mass resignation from his 12-councillor executive committee.

“Any of my executive members — obviously, I’ll be talking to them today — anybody wants to go? Go. I’ll be running the ship even if it’s by myself,” he said.

It is not yet clear how the government would function without an executive with enough members to hold a meeting — seven, including Ford.

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Asked about the circumstances around the photo he took with alleged gang members outside the home at 15 Windsor Rd., which police have been told is a “crack house” and which is occupied by Ford acquaintances, Ford said again that he takes pictures with “everyone.”

“Everyone,” he repeated. “I don’t say, are you a criminal? Are you this and that?”

Ford repeated his call for Police Chief Bill Blair to release the video that appears to show him smoking crack. Oakley asked him if this was a “temporary legal dodge” since Blair says the video must come out through the courts; Ford said, “I’m not a lawyer.”

Ford said flatly in May that “there’s no videoed.” When Oakley asked if he still believes there is no video, Ford said, “I’m not disbelieving what the chief says. He says there’s videos, plural. If there’s video, videos, I want to see it. Everybody wants to see it.”

Ford refused to comment on the extortion charge against his “friend” Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, the man he spoke with immediately before and soon after the Gawker and Star stories on the video were published in May. Lisi has been accused of using threats to try to obtain the video.

Oakley is usually supportive of Ford, whom he encouraged to run for mayor and once gave a weekly segment on the show. On Monday, he spoke to Ford in harsh terms.

“You broke faith and betrayed the people who believed in you, because you lied,” Oakley said.

Ford told him he is not a “perfect person.” Oakley said, “I’m not asking you for perfection. I’m just asking for accountability.”

Ford grew testy when Oakley raised a 2006 incident in which Ford was evicted from the Air Canada Centre for berating a small-town couple while drunk at a Toronto Maple Leafs game.

“As a matter of fact, I didn’t do my homework when I was in Grade 1 a few times also. So you know what? If you want to go down that road — maybe you’re perfect, Johnny, I’m not perfect,” Ford said.

Ford rejected the suggestion that the provincial aspirations of his brother and most vocal defender, Councillor Doug Ford, had been crushed by the scandal.

“Doug will be provincial — he will be premier one day. It has nothing to do with me,” Ford said.

“The guy is 10 times smarter than anyone I’ve ever met. To say Doug is associated with me? We love each other, we’re best friends, but don’t put him in the same boat as me.”

Ford also promised that his 2014 budget would allow the police to hire more officers.

Watch: Investigative reporter Robyn Doolittle on the story so far