After months of delay, actor Jim Carrey will give a sworn deposition in court next week where he will “be forced to answer questions about his late girlfriend, Cathriona White, and her suicide.” He will appear in Los Angeles Superior Court in relation to the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him by his late girlfriend’s estranged husband and mother.
After months of delay, actor Jim Carrey will give a sworn deposition in court next week where he will “be forced to answer questions about his late girlfriend, Cathriona White, and her suicide.” He will appear in Los Angeles Superior Court in relation to the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him by his late girlfriend’s estranged husband and mother.
In a statement regarding the matter, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing Cathriona’s mother and husband, said:
“We are very much looking forward to Mr. Carrey finally being placed under oath next week and forced to answer the questions he has been dodging for years, such as why he provided illegal drugs to Ms. White, why he gave Ms. White multiple STDs and then lied about it, and why he has engaged in a public charade of innocence crafted by his handlers…This is a search for the truth and we will find it. And when we do, it will not end well for Mr. Carrey.”
For those who don’t know, White, a makeup artist, and Carrey had a tumultuous relationship dating back to 2012, and in September of 2015 the couple “ended their relationship.” Shortly after, White was found dead at her home in California after overdosing on a “cocktail of prescription drugs.”
As a result of White’s death, her estranged husband, Mark Burton, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Carrey. In the lawsuit, Burton claimed that Carrey was responsible for White’s death because he provided her “with the pills she overdosed on and gave her sexually transmitted diseases, claims which were also made by White’s mother Brigid Sweetman in her own wrongful death lawsuit.”
Carrey’s lawyer pushed back against the claims, though, and “argued that the claims made under drugs legislation were likely to fall outside the statute of limitations and said the wrongful death claims were too vague.” She tried to get the case thrown out by filing a motion, but “Judge Deirdre Hill at Los Angeles Superior Court indicated that she would side with the prosecution, who urged her not to delay proceedings any longer.”
Later on, Carrey “filed a countersuit against White’s family and attorney.” In a statement on Twitter the actor said:
“I filed a cross-complaint against Filippo Marchino, The X Law Group, Mark Burton and Bridgid Sweetman. Unfortunately, I made the mistake three years ago and giving in and settling false claims made against me by Mr. Marchino, on behalf of Cat, as mounting 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 behavior is unimaginable.”
With so much going on in this case, it will be interesting to see how Carrey’s deposition plays out, and what it will mean for the actor’s career and future in general.
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