Moreno, 50, is trying to reclaim the job he lost to Ald. Daniel LaSpata after a self-destructive string of scandals that derailed his once-bright future.
Now, Moreno is taking another step on his comeback tour.
“He told me he had a gun. He was gonna do it. That I’m the only one who loved him. I said, ‘That’s not true.’ He asked me to take care of his family. I said I would, but ‘I can’t take care of your family as well as you.’ I was trying every angle I could to not have him do this and to tell me where he was, which he would not,” Moreno recalled in the interview on Thursday.
“I didn’t sleep. I had nightmares. And I blamed myself. … [I was] dealing with it by abusing alcohol so I could forget about it every night,” the former alderperson said.The seven weeks Moreno spent at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s rehab program turned his life around. “I still think about Joe Muntaner all the time. But I think of him more in a way that I celebrate him, rather than in a way of blaming myself and re-running that terrible day in my head. … I remember him in a more beautiful way for the beautiful person that he was,” he said.
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