The family of Jim Carrey’s tragic girlfriend today admitted their fight with the Hollywood superstar is over.
Cathriona White’s estranged mother Brigid Sweetman and her former husband Mark Burton had sued Carrey, claiming he gave her sexually-transmitted diseases and provided the drugs she used when she took her own life in September 2015.
But the 56-year-old actor’s lawyer had claimed Miss White forged medical records to make it appear that she had no STDs before meeting Carrey.
Last year the Hollywood star claimed Hollywood make-up artist Miss White had blackmailed him over claims he had given her herpes. He said that he paid her an undisclosed sum in 2013.
The lawsuit accusing the actor of being in some way responsible for his ex’s death has now been thrown out, leaving Miss White’s family with no option but to drop their case against Carrey, who has said he is looking to ‘move on’.
The couple, who dated on and off for three years, are seen together in New York in May 2015
Brigid Sweetman, pictured with her daughter in 2014, filed the lawsuit against Carrey along with Mark Burton, who Miss White is said to have married for visa purposes so she could stay in the US
Makeup artist Cathriona White, seen with Jim Carrey in 2015 before her death, took her own life aged just 30
Miss White married Mark Burton in Las Vegas in January 2013, two days after she broke up with Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey is seen carrying Miss White’s coffin in her home village of Cappawhite, Co Tipperary
Speaking to MailOnline, a family source said: ‘Brigid said she had to drop her law suit because of ill health, she wasn’t able to go on with it.
‘She says that she has done all she can for her now and there’s nothing more she can do. The suit was only being taken by her and not Cathriona’s sisters and brother in Ireland. She didn’t receive a penny from the case.’
It emerged today that Carrey will not face trial for causing his girlfriend’s death after lawyers alleged she blackmailed him with fake STI test results.
Miss White, who dated Carrey intermittently between 2012 and 2015, died, aged 30, at her home in Los Angeles after taking a cocktail of prescription drugs.
Almost exactly a year after Miss White’s death, her estranged husband Mark Burton and Ms Sweetman claimed Carrey gave her sexually-transmitted diseases and provided the drugs she used when she took her own life.
Carrey, who countersued, claimed last year that Miss White threatened to publicly claim the star gave her herpes unless he paid ‘millions of dollars’ and a bitter court battle ensued.
But the 56-year-old actor’s lawyer claimed that Miss White forged medical records to make it appear that she had no STDs before meeting Carrey.
The actor also revealed that he had already paid her an undisclosed sum of money in 2013 to settle her STD claims.
In a note written by Miss White on her iPad in that year, only discovered after her death two years later, she blamed the actor for exposing her to a debauched life of sex and drugs and scorned him for ‘giving her’ herpes.
A text exchange between the couple in January and February of 2013, during their short reconciliation, shows that Miss White had been concerned about bumps on her genitals.
She wrote to the actor that she was worried that it could be symptoms of an STD. Carrey appears to have attempted to defuse the situation, replying that: ‘Aggravated folacles [sic] or bumps are normal when you shave or have vigorous sex.’
A few weeks later, she brought it up again with Carrey, writing that she had found bumps again and wanted to ‘get checked’.
During the subsequent text exchange, Carrey writes ‘It could be from someone before me.’
Ms Sweetman and Mr Burton had also claimed in their now dismissed lawsuit that Carrey had illegally obtained and provided Miss White with the drugs she used to take her own life.
White’s autopsy, which was released in July 2016, showed that she died from a fatal overdose of prescription pills including Ambien, Popranolol and Percocet.
The lawsuit claimed that bottles of these had been found next to her body, prescribed to an ‘Arthur King’, an alias Ms Sweetman and Mr Burton allege had been used by Carrey.
In January 2013, before they briefly got back together, Miss White texted the actor that she was worried about bumps on her genitals, which Carrey appears to brush off
A few weeks later, during their brief reconciliation, Miss White, blue, tells Carrey, in white, that she had found ‘bumps down there’ once again
A later exchange shows the pair, who had yet again separated by the end of February, talking about Miss White ‘dragging her feet’ about signing a document needed by Carrey
An expert analysis submitted by Mr Boucher in court found that the ‘clean’ STD tests submitted by Miss White in 2013 was an altered copy of her friend’s, referred to as Jane Doe
The actor’s attorney claimed that Miss White, pictured in 2015, had forged medical records in order to blackmail him
Last year, the actor revealed that he had paid Miss White, pictured together in 2012, an undisclosed sum of money in 2013 to settle her STD claims
A trial was set for April, but the allegations have now been dismissed with the actor saying he is ‘looking forward to moving on with his life’.
His lawyer claimed that Miss White had edited the information on a friend’s 2011 STI test to make it look like it was her own, proving she had no disease before meeting Carrey.
Representatives for Carrey called the lawsuit an ‘abhorrent money-grab scheme’ and insisted her husband Mark Burton had never even lived with his wife and was trying to ‘cash in’ on her death.
Carey once had a strong bond with his ex-girlfriend’s Irish family and attended her funeral in Cappawhite in Co Tipperary.
But the relationship soon soured as they took the comedian to court, calling him ‘pure evil’.
As part of their evidence, the family revealed a worrying letter written by Miss White, where she called the actor ‘Jekyll and Hyde’.
She allegedly wrote: ‘I met you, you introduced me to cocaine, prostitutes, mental abuse and disease.
‘You did good things for me but being with you broke me down as a person Jim.
‘I was promised Jekyll and instead I got Hyde.
‘Because I love you I would have stuck out Hyde all year and done everything he wanted to be with Jekyll for five of those but you threw me away when you absorbed anything worthwhile that was left of me.’
Michael Avenatti, the attorney acting for her mother Brigid Sweetman and her husband Mark Burton issued a brief statement on their behalf.
It read: ‘We have no further comment at this time.’
The couple broke up several times over their three years together, but are said to have been dating at the time of her suicide in 2015
After breaking up in January 2013, the couple reconcile briefly in February, and later Miss White demanded – and received – money in exchange for her silence in STD claims. The couple then reunited in May 2015 before breaking up at some point before her death
Miss White’s autopsy showed that she died from a fatal overdose of prescription pills including Ambien, Popranolol and Percocet
Carrey had been accused by White’s mother Brigid Sweetman and estranged husband Mark Burton of giving her STDs and providing the drugs used when she took her own life
In October last year, Carrey filed a countersuit against his accusers, insisting they were trying to extort him.
In a statement at the time, Carrey said: ‘Unfortunately, I made the mistake three years ago of giving in and settling false claims made against me by Mr. Marchino [Miss White’s lawyer], on behalf of Cat, as mounting a public defense is a very costly and painful process.
‘At the time I felt Cat was being exploited by Marchino.
‘Since this new case was filed, I have discovered the depth of deception behind those false claims, the kind of deception decent people fall for, because to us, such behaviour is unimaginable.
‘I will not give in a second time to these same fraudulent charges initiated by Cat’s husband in name but not substance Mark Burton, and her estranged mother.
‘Nor am I responsible for what these desperate characters have inadvertently unearthed about the woman I adored.
‘I was clearly blinded by my affection.
‘Regardless, I will hold a place of empathy, and forgiveness for Cat and continue to focus on the many blessings in this life (sic).’
Cathriona White was from Cappawhite, a small town in Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
As a child and teenager, she was an avid camogie player, a stick-and-ball team game played mainly by women in Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
She had two siblings, James and Lisa, and three half-siblings, and is said to have had a close relationship with her stepmother Brid, while her relationship with her biological mother – Ms Sweetman who sued Carrey – was strained.
She qualified as a beauty therapist at the Limerick College of Further Education and moved to Los Angeles in 2009, where she ended up working as a stylist and make-up artist.
Miss White is also reported to have been a Scientologist, having taken several classes at a the Hollywood Celebrity Center after befriending a group of young people in the entertainment industry who were members of the church.