Andrew Gillum, whose prominence in politics once gave high hopes for the Democratic Party, opened up about his past scandal in a Florida hotel, saying his actions were a result of someone slipping drugs in his drink and that everyone makes mistakes in life.
On a recent episode of “The Breakfast Club,” Charlamagne Tha God — known for grilling some of his guests — didn’t waste rehashing the hotel scandal involving the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate, where he was found inebriated in a Miami Beach hotel room with two other men. One of them was reportedly a male escort.
In 2020, the police had been called because one of the men appeared to have experienced an overdose, and suspected crystal meth was found in the room, the Miami Herald reported.
Although Gillum has already publicly spoken about entering rehabilitation for alcoholism after the incident, he had a lot to say about it during the podcast interview. “You can’t be more hurt than me,” Gillum said. “You can’t be more angry, more disappointed, more let down, more whatever than me.”
He continued: “What I would say if I were telling the truth about the situation, I would compare it to you deciding that you wanted to go out to a club for whatever reason for giving you motivation, but the main motivation was you wanted to have a good time, wanted to be seen.
“And when you were there, someone slipped your drink of Quaalude and everything from the point of you having had that drink to waking up the next day is a mystery to you,” said Gillum, who initially said he was in Miami that night to attend a wedding.
Quaalude, also known as Methaqualone, is a sedative and hypnotic drug, acting as a central nervous system depressant that induces sleep, according to PBS.
“If we were of different genders, we might talk about this even more differently. I made a choice to go somewhere at 5 in the afternoon, with the expectation of leaving in 30 minutes,”…
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