By Advocate.com Editors

Originally published on Advocate.com February 17 2001 1:00 AM ET

Canadian gay magazine Fab has issued an apology to openly gay Olympic gold medal swimmer Mark Tewksbury for saying in a press release that Tewksbury had an addiction to the drug ecstasy, The [Toronto] Globe and Mail reports. The press release was promoting an interview Fab conducted with Tewksbury in which the swimmer talks about a former addiction to marijuana.