Jim Carrey has fired back against allegations made by the mother of his late girlfriend, Cathriona White, in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Tipperary native White dated Carrey on and off from 2012 until she took her own life in September 2015. She reportedly overdosed on prescription medications that his lawyer claims she had stolen from him.
In October, White's mother, Brigid Sweetman, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Hollywood star, claiming that he "knowingly" gave her "three sexually transmitted diseases" "without warning her," then "lying to her about it, dumping her out of concern for saving his own public image, calling her a 'whore' and shaming her, and then using his high-priced Hollywood lawyers and 'fixers' to intimidate and threaten her in an effort to silence her."
This week, Carrey has filed papers in response to Sweetman's lawsuit, seeking to strike out the "numerous irrelevant, false, and improper" allegations she has made. Carrey is calling Sweetman's lawsuit a "shameful shakedown for money" and is accusing her of seeking to "profit from the suicide-death of her long-estranged daughter" who "chose to end her own life in 2015 on the third anniversary of her beloved father's death."
"The false, irrelevant and improper allegations were inserted for the sole purpose of harassing, embarrassing and humiliating Carrey in an effort to shame him into an unmerited settlement and should be stricken in their entirety," Carrey's filing states.
According to the papers filed by Carrey, he met White at a Guns N' Roses concert in 2012 and then spent "substantial time together as a couple at his house in Los Angeles," before breaking up broke up in mid-2013 after "White's unfounded accusations that he gave her STDs, which Carrey denied."
They go on to say that in November 2014, White "reached out to Carrey to rekindle their relationship, apologizing to Carrey for her prior accusations" and that the two "remained a loving couple" until her death.
The papers also challenge the claims that Carrey provided White with the drugs that she overdosed on.
"Indeed, no facts whatsoever are alleged as to how Carrey purportedly furnished drugs to White and the Complaint merely parrots the conclusory language of the Drug Dealer Liability Act, alleging no facts at all,"
"White loved Carrey, viewed him (and not Sweetman) as her family; and White was not upset with him at the time she took her own life by overdosing on prescription medication," the filing says, adding that White had "sought out and stole Carrey's prescription medication from his home without his knowledge."
Carrey's lawsuit also claims that White left two suicide notes in which she asked him to "forgive" her and called him her "family."
Finally, Carrey's filings also wants allegations by Sweetman that he offered to pay for White's funeral costs before "reneging" and that he owns a private jet struck out. He labelled both allegations as "irrelevant" and "improper."
Via E News