Following in the footsteps of White's husband Mark Burton who accused Carrey of giving her sexually transmitted diseases prior to her passing last year, the late make-up artist's family has now filed a lawsuit against the actor and made similar claims, reported Ace Showbiz.
The latest wrongful death lawsuit was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court by White's mom Brigid Sweetman.
She believed the "Dumb and Dumber To" star knowingly gave her daughter three STDs, verbally abused her and supplied her with the illegal drugs she took to kill herself.
However, he didn't tell White about it. When she found out she had STDs, she confronted Carrey who then dumped her and tried to silence her.
In the suit, Sweetman also alleged that Carrey used the name "Arthur King" to obtain "highly addictive" illegal drugs which he provided to White, whom he knew was prone to depression and had previously tried to commit suicide.
"As a family, we want the world to know the truth about who Jim Carrey really is - a man that will give your daughter three STDs, lie about it, call her terrible names and demean her, use his high priced lawyers to try and shut her and her family up, and then give her illegal drugs," she continued.
Carrey's team has responded to the new lawsuit. His lawyer Marty Singer branded it another sham as he pointed out that White had a "contentious relationship" with her mom and even had cut ties with her before she died.
"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 stated.
Singer deemed Burton's lawsuit an attempt to extort money from Carrey. Defending his client, he said that White married Burton in 2013 so she could stay in the US. The pair didn't even live in the same state following their wedding.
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