“Liar Liar” wasn’t just a movie for Jim Carrey — it’s also a way of life for the actor. At least that’s the claim of Brigid Sweetman, mother of Carrey’s deceased ex-girlfriend, Cathriona White.
Sweetman, who’s suing Carrey for wrongful death and challenged him to pony up an STD test, released a statement Tuesday, calling Carrey a “complete liar” for not producing the test results.
“One week ago, I offered to drop my case against Jim Carrey if he released his STD test from 2013 and it showed he was clean as he has told the world,” Sweetman said in a statement released by her attorney. “He has refused to release the test, which shows he is a complete liar and cannot be trusted to be honest with the public and the media in this case.”
Sweetman’s lawsuit alleges that Carrey contributed to White’s 2015 suicide by providing her with drugs and transmitting multiple STDs to her without telling her he was infected.
“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 said in a statement after filing the lawsuit.
The complaint goes on to claim that Carrey tested positive for multiple STDs in 2013, using the name Jose Gomez for the tests.
White’s estranged husband, Mark Burton, has made similar allegations in a separate wrongful death lawsuit.
In response to Sweetman’s suit, Carrey’s attorney, Marty Singer, claimed that she had “a contentious relationship” with White, and that the two had been “estranged for years.”
“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 said.
“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 contact her,” Singer added. “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.”
Pamela Chelin contributed to this report.
Jim Carrey Lawsuit: What We Know So Far (Photos)
"The Mask" star Jim Carrey has become embroiled in a legal saga, with relatives of his deceased ex-girlfriend, Cathriona White, claiming that he's responsible for her death. Read on for a timeline of Carrey's legal woes in the matter.
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September 2015: White (pictured left with Carrey)dies at age 28, of what authorities ultimately determine was a suicide.
July 7, 2016: Carrey blasts the release of White's autopsy report, saying in a statement, “When I came to Hollywood to make it as a comedian, I soon learned that the details of my private life would be handed out to the media like free dinner vouchers. I never dreamed that the people I love most in the world would also be on the menu. What a shame.”
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Sept. 19, 2016: White's estranged husband, Mark Burton, files a lawsuit against Carrey, claiming that the actor caused White's death. Burton claims that Carrey obtained "highly addictive, and in this case deadly" drugs under the pseudonym Arthur King, and provided White with those drugs. Carrey's lawyers call the suit an "abhorrent money-grab scheme."
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Sept. 22, 2016: Burton files an amended complaint, claiming that Carrey also gave White two forms of herpes and gonorrhea without telling her that he had contracted the diseases.
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Sept. 23, 2016: Carrey rips into Burton in a statement: “Is this the way a ‘husband’ honors the memory of his ‘wife'? The real disease here is greed, shameful greed!”
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Oct. 11, 2016: White's mother, Brigid Sweetman, files suit. In addition to echoing most of Burton's allegations, Sweetman claims that Carrey tested positive for STDs in 2013, using the pseudonym "Jose Lopez" for the test. Carrey’s lawyer Martin Singer issues a statement soon after saying that White had complained of having a “contentious relationship” with Sweetman, and claimed that they had been “estranged for years.”
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Oct. 12, 2016: Sweetman issues a statement saying she will drop her lawsuit if Carrey can produce the test results showing that he did not contract STDs. If not, "then Carrey and his attorney must admit they have lied to the media and the public. The public has a right to know when they have been lied to.”
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”The Mask“ actor is accused in legal documents of contributing to the death of his ex-girlfriend, Cathriona White
"The Mask" star Jim Carrey has become embroiled in a legal saga, with relatives of his deceased ex-girlfriend, Cathriona White, claiming that he's responsible for her death. Read on for a timeline of Carrey's legal woes in the matter.