Shortly after Cathriona White’s death, actor Jim Carrey came face-to-face with quite a hefty lie that his former girlfriend had maintained throughout their years-long relationship. It turns out that White was actually married to another man while she was dating Carrey. According to Mirror, Carrey’s lawyer claimed that the Irish-born makeup artist was only married to Mark Burton to obtain a green card for American citizenship. However, it was eventually Burton, along with White’s mother, Brigid Sweetman, that filed a civil suit against Carrey, accusing the actor of assisting in White’s suicide by giving her the prescription pills that eventually led to her lethal overdose.
Burton and Sweetman also accused the actor of giving White herpes, though it was later revealed that White had actually forged documents to show that she had sexually transmitted diseases or infections in 2011 in order to claim that Carrey gave her these diseases and extort him for money, per Mirror.
In February 2018, Carrey was cleared of all charges and the case against him was dismissed. “I really hope that some day soon people will stop trying to profit from this and let her rest in peace,” Carrey said about the court case, per BBC.
Since White’s death, Carrey has only been linked romantically to one other woman, Ginger Gonzaga, whom he began dating in 2019. However, shortly after they made their relationship red carpet official, Us Weekly broke the news that the couple had called it quits.
