CRUEL CARREY
Tragic gal’s letter: Said I’m ‘whore,’ gave me STD
JIM CARREY’S late ex-girlfriend Cathriona White was “disrespected, degraded” and “called a whore” after the actor gave her sexually transmitted diseases and refused to own up to it, she allegedly claimed in a newly unearthed letter.
The undated dispatch to Carrey, obtained by the Daily News on Friday, appeared in a revised wrongful death lawsuit filed by White’s estranged husband Mark Burton claiming “The Mask” star had given her herpes type 1, herpes type 2 and gonorrhea. He also lied about it and then dumped her prior to her September 2015 suicide by overdose.
“I wanted an apology, to be acknowledged and to respect be (sic) enough to take responsibility,” the 30-yearold Irish makeup artist allegedly scrawled. “To say ‘I gave you this, intentional or not, I gave it to you I understand that this is something that will affect you for the rest of your life, your future relationships (or lack of because of this) what can make this right?’ ”
“Instead of that, I was disrespected, degraded, called a whore, an opportunist, threatened our relationship belittled,” the letter continued. “And I really don’t think you can see . . . I’m just an ungrateful b---h who you done so much for and I took advantage. That simply is not true.” Carrey, 54, blasted Burton’s lawsuit Friday afternoon in a frank statement to The News. “Is this the way a ‘husband’ honors the memory of his ‘wife?’” he said. “The real disease here is greed, shameful greed!” White, who had dated Carrey on and off starting in 2012, was found dead and surrounded by prescription pill bottles — some of them prescribed to an alias for Carrey — in her Los Angeles home Sept. 28. A toxicology report later ruled her death a suicide.
Burton, the aspiring actress’ estranged husband at the time of her death, claimed in court papers Monday that Carrey had illegally supplied White with the drugs she used to kill herself. He amended the complaint on Thursday to accuse the actor of giving White three diseases.
Carrey’s attorney Martin Singer blasted the “despicable bogus” new claims, and questioned why White would have continued dating the Golden Globe winner in subsequent years given their supposed STD dispute.
“My client will not pay money to end this opportunist’s transparent shakedown lawsuit, and this malicious case will be dismissed,” Singer said.