Jim Carrey accused of supplying drugs to late girlfriend Cathriona White
In the filing, Burton also accuses Carrey’s physician of misconduct, claiming that the two “were engaged in a conspiracy to wrongfully and illegally provide medications to Carrey under false names”.
After White’s death, Carrey released a statement calling her “a truly kind and delicate Irish flower, too sensitive for this soil, to whom loving and being loved was all that sparkled”.
Cathriona White, who first met in 2012 and was in an on-off relationship with Carrey, committed suicide via drug overdose on September 28, 2015.
The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles by Mark Burton, an OR man who was married to Cathriona White, 30, at the time of her death, when she had been in a relationship with Carrey. Their on again, off again relationship had just taken a turn for the worse and Carrey was named in her suicide note.
Carrey is accused by Ms White’s estranged husband, Mark Burton, of illegally providing Ms White with the drugs.
It also alleges Carrey reneged on an offer to pay for White’s funeral expenses in Ireland.
According to the suit, the coroner determined that White took her own life via an overdose of drugs including Ambien, Propranolol and Percocet, which “had been obtained by defendant Carrey under a bogus name – ‘Arthur King'”.
Details from her autopsy were reported by various outlets this summer, including what drugs were found in her system and a note she had written to Carrey.
The suit alleges Carrey attempted to control and manipulate White and would monitor her using surveillance cameras installed in her home. “I could, I just don’t have the will this time”, she wrote. “I’ve spent 3 days now in disbelief that you’re not here”.
In previous reports, it was claimed Cathriona had taken a mix of prescription drugs, and that Carrey had texted her the night before she died asking if she knew where missing painkillers prescribed to him went. White, who split with Carrey a week before she died, wrote, “I’m sorry you felt I wasn’t there for you”.
E! News said it has reached out to Jim Carrey‘s representative and attorney for comment.
Carrey, 54, did not immediately respond to the civil suit.