Sometimes I wonder if his mental disorder waffles from simple pathological lying to actual dissociative perceptions. Like that Warrior Princess incident....we all think he was just making up another ridiculous lie when he said he really had no clue what was going on, and genuinely felt threatened. People with his kind of disorder don't always perceive reality in the same way.
Ford is an interesting live public study of personality disorders. That's what makes him such a unique story (while it lasts)
What was holding you back...perhaps you were thrown because it was too obvious?