In a new YouTube video, Toronto mayor Rob Ford talks about the controversy surrounding the leaked video of him smoking crack.

Ford and his brother, Doug Ford, answered questions during the debut of their new series Ford Nation and the embattled mayor spoke about the drug video and lying about it at first.

He explained the reason he lied was because he was “embarrassed” and it’s simply “humiliating,” Vancouver Sun reports. He also defends himself about lying, saying "everybody in the world has lied.”

Ford also insists that he does not “have a substance abuse problem” despite getting caught smoking crack.

"I'm not a drug addict, I don't use drugs. Have I in the past? Yes. And when they ask me, it's very humiliating in front of the world to say yes. Everybody has lied,” he explained, CBC News reports.

His brother defended him, saying "if we dug into every politician's background around the world, I think you'd get a real eye-opener."

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