Toronto mayor Rob Ford admits to smoking crack cocaine in 'drunken stupor' Mr Ford, a 44-year-old conservative Independent, refused to resign and continued avoiding questions about crack. However on Sunday he admitted that he "drank a little too much at times." Having pledged to cut down on his alcohol consumption, on Tuesday he told reporters outside his office at City Hall that his drinking was to blame for his consumption of the highly addictive drug. "There have been times when I've been in a drunken stupor," he said. And that's why I want to see this tape. I want everyone in the city to see this tape. I'd like to see this tape. I don't even recall there being a tape, or this video. So I want to see the state that I was in. Declaring that "all I can do now is apologise and move on," the mayor said he was sorry "to my family, my friends, my colleagues and the people of this great city." Mr Ford played down his about-turn on the subject, wrongly stating that the media had only asked whether he was a crack cocaine addict, rather than whether he had ever smoked the drug. "I wasn't lying - you didn't ask the correct questions," he said. His extraordinary remarks came six months after Gawker, a news website, reported that it had watched a clip showing Mr Ford holding a "clear, glass pipe" and a lighter, and had been offered the recording for $200,000. The Toronto Star newspaper then reported that its journalists had also watched the video and confirmed that it showed Mr Ford using the drug and making offensive comments. Anthony Smith, a 21-year-old university student also alleged to appear in the video recording, was later shot dead outside a nightclub in Toronto in an apparent gangland-style killing. Alexander Lisi, a friend and sometime driver for Mr Ford, was last week charged with extortion in connection with an alleged attempt to recover the video. Mr Ford, who has one year of his four-year term remaining, faced renewed calls to resign after his admission and was sharply criticised by members of the Toronto City Council. "Mayor Ford claims to represent the 'little guy'," said one, Kristyn Wong-Tam, in a Tweet. The 'little guy' and your Average Joe as far as I know do not smoke crack cocaine.