Dennis Rodman, the eccentric retired basketball player who has struck up a bizarre friendship with North Korean's leader Kim Jong-un, has said that Mr Kim's uncle was not executed in a purge."The last time I went there, when they said they killed his girlfriend, they killed his uncle, they just fed him to the dogs ... They were standing right behind me."
mumbling "Brains!"
Rodman prompted outrage in January when he suggested in an interview with CNN that a Korean-American Christian tour operator was to blame for his imprisonment in North Korea. He later apologised and blamed his outburst on heavy drinking, checking into a rehab facility in New Jersey.
Of his alcoholism, Rodman has said: "I've always been a party animal (and) the reason I drink is because I'm bored."
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