Cathriona White's mom has filed the new wrongful death lawsuit and accused the actor of giving her late daughter three STDs, verbally abusing her and providing the drugs which killed her.
- Oct 12, 2016
AceShowbiz - Jim Carrey is once again sued over the death of his ex-girlfriend Cathriona White. Following in the footsteps of White's husband Mark Burton who accused Carrey of giving her sexually transmitted diseases prior to her passing last year, the late make-up artist's family has now filed a lawsuit against the actor and made similar claims.
The latest wrongful death lawsuit was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, October 11 by White's mom Brigid Sweetman. She believed the "Dumb and Dumber To" star knowingly gave her daughter three STDs, verbally abused her and supplied her with the illegal drugs she took to kill herself.
Calling Carrey "heartless," "despicable," "outageous" and "pure evil" among others, Sweetman stated in her document that Carey visited a medical clinic in January 2013 and registered under the name "Jose Lopez" before he tested positive for the STDs.
However, he didn't tell White about it. When she found out she had STDs, she confronted Carrey who then dumped her and tried to silence her. In the suit, Sweetman also alleged that Carrey used the name "Arthur King" to obtain "highly addictive" illegal drugs which he provided to White, whom he knew was prone to depression and had previously tried to commit suicide.
"Jim Carrey should be ashamed of what he did to my daughter. And he should be ashamed for how he has used his Hollywood attorneys to badmouth Cat's husband Mark with the hope that nobody will hold him responsible for what he did," Sweetman, who's represented by Burton's lawyer Michael Avenatti, said in a statement.
"As a family, we want the world to know the truth about who Jim Carrey really is - a man that will give your daughter three STDs, lie about it, call her terrible names and demean her, use his high priced lawyers to try and shut her and her family up, and then give her illegal drugs," she continued. "Every mother and father that has a daughter should read Cat's handwritten letter to Jim and decide for themselves what kind of a guy he really is."
Carrey's team has responded to the new lawsuit. His lawyer Marty Singer branded it another sham as he pointed out that White had a "contentious relationship" with her mom and even had cut ties with her before she died.
"It is understandable that a mother who has lost a daughter will look for someone to blame. But in directing her grief and rage at Jim Carrey and joining this ridiculous lawyer's attempt to capitalize on Cathriona's suicide, Mrs. Sweetman is heading down the same dark path as Cathriona's green-card 'husband,' Mark Burton," Singer stated.
"On her 30th birthday, just a few days before her suicide, Cathriona White was distraught having received a message from her mother through Facebook that was so destructive and demoralizing that she instantly deleted her Facebook account so her mother could no longer have contact with her," he continued. "Cathriona often lamented about her contentious relationship with her mother, how she was forced to leave home at the age of 15, and how they had been estranged for years."
As previously reported, Singer deemed Burton's lawsuit an attempt to extort money from Carrey. Defending his client, he said that White married Burton in 2013 so she could stay in the U.S. The pair didn't even live in the same state following their wedding.
