Former girlfriend’s note casts new light on Carrey wrongful death case

IN A newly discovered note she wrote two years before taking her own life, Jim Carrey’s ex-girlfriend blamed the actor for exposing her to a debauched life of sex and drugs and scorned him for “giving her” herpes.

The note was written by Catriona White on April 8, 2013, on her ipad. It is not known if she sent it to Carrey before she took her life on September 28, 2015. At the time, she and Carrey had broken up after she told him about testing positive for herpes. He maintains that he never had the disease and that she contracted it before they met.

The note was discovered by lawyers working on behalf of her family in a wrongful death lawsuit against Carrey, 55. They say he gave her the pills to kill herself after obtaining them in a false name and allege that he gave her STDS without warning her.

On Friday, Carrey dropped the bombshell that he had paid her an undisclosed sum in 2013 to settle her STD claims and of her mother and ex-husband’s attempts to get more amounts through extortion. The star dismissed their accusation that he caused her death. Carrey said it had been a “mistake” to settle the claims.

White’s 2013 note describes in her own words the couple’s tumultuous relationship and gives a damning description of how she felt the actor treated her. In it, she told how she “was promised Jekyll but got Hyde”.

“You gave me HSV and HPV, I want you to apologise for it because you care enough to. However little a thing seems to you, it ruins a girl’s life.”

Carrey, who carried White’s casket at her funeral before the suit was filed, claimed her accusations were false and she had been trying to get back at him for breaking up with her.

In his counter suit, his lawyers described a “cottage industry” which fed on extorting celebrities and “people in Hollywood who have achieved notoriety”. – Daily Mail