Shortly after revealing his multiple extra-marital affairs, Gov. David. A. Paterson confessed again about his past, during a television interview on Monday. Appearing on an NY-1 political show, Paterson was asked by the interviewer whether he had ever used cocaine, and he said yes.

Paterson said that he only “tried” the drug “a couple of times”, when he was “about 22 or 23.” He also confessed about trying marijuana in the 1970s, noting that many people had tried marijuana in those days and then became responsible and did not allow drugs to affect their lives.

"And marijuana probably when I was about 20," he said on the NY1 news station. "I don't think I touched marijuana since the '70s."

"More Americans have tried a lot more during that period of time and gone on to lead responsible lives and hopefully have lived their lives to their fullest," he added.

The governor reminded his interviewer that he had given the same answer to this question during the 2006 campaign. He said that he did not want to answer differently this time, just because he was governor.

"There’s only one truth, and that’s what I told you," he insisted.

Paterson took Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s place, after the latter resigned following a prostitution scandal in which he had been involved.

Last week, Paterson admitted publicly that he and his wife were separated for a few years and they had both committed adultery in that period. He took this preventive measure to come clean before the press a day after he was sworn in as New York’s governor.

Asked whether he had spent taxpayer money for his extra-marital affairs, during the same television interview on Monday, Paterson said he had not.

Paterson, New York’s first black governor and also the first legally blind chief executive of an American state, declared he wanted to restore trust in state government after the sex scandal in which Spitzer was involved.