Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has told a Canadian newspaper that "rehab is amazing", adding that it's a lot like the football summer camp he attended as a child.
Ford, 44, took a leave of absence from city hall in the middle of his re-election campaign last week to enter rehab for drug and alcohol abuse, after another video surfaced showing him allegedly smoking crack recently.
"I feel great," he told the Toronto Sun on Wednesday.
"Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid."
The mayor described daily meetings with four to eight people, including "two doctors, a captain of industry and a professional athlete", and "then there is a meal before we have some one-on-one sessions".
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"There are terrific people in my group. We are all supporting each other. We are connecting in a weird way," he said, while refusing to say where he is receiving treatment after reportedly being turned away by US customs agents in Chicago.
Ford said he is also coming to terms with the fallout of his substance abuse.
Ford burst into international headlines last year when an alleged drug dealer tried to sell a video of the mayor smoking crack to media outlets in Canada and the United States.
At first, Ford denied using crack cocaine, but later acknowledged he had smoked the drug while in a "drunken stupor" but insisted he was not an addict.
Since then Ford has been filmed numerous times in public behaving erratically.
Toronto City Council stripped the mayor of most of his powers in November over his misconduct.
As for his political future, once he's completed rehab, Ford said: "I am coming back and I am going to kick butt."
