(CNN) Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam told his Cabinet on Friday that he has no plans to resign in the wake of a blackface scandal that has tossed his state's government into chaos, a source with direct knowledge of the meeting told CNN.

Northam has been under fire for a week after the public reveal of a photo on his medical school yearbook page featuring two individuals in racist costumes -- one in blackface and the other in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. Northam initially apologized and said he was one of the people in the photo, but later recanted in an hourlong news conference, saying he was not in the picture.

The Associated Press first reported Northam's comments at the Cabinet meeting.

Though Northam defended himself in the news conference last Saturday, he also revealed that he had worn blackface in a separate incident, when he performed dressed as Michael Jackson in a dance competition in the 1980s.

At the news conference last week, Northam signaled he did not plan on resigning.

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