Heartbroken mom of Jim Carrey’s ex-fiancee hits out at his comeback as she reignites feud blaming him for daughter’s suicide: ‘I don’t care if he’s broke’

The heartbroken mother of Jim Carrey‘s tragic fiancée Cathriona White has reignited her bitter feud with the Hollywood star who she blames for her daughter’s suicide.

Brigid Sweetman hit out at the actor as he stepped back into the limelight to promote his latest blockbuster movie Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

She told how she was enraged after Carrey, 62, joked he was making a return to the big screen because he ‘needed the money’ as he appeared on the red carpet during the movie’s premiere in London this week.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline from her home in Ireland, Brigid said she was full of contempt for the actor who was once one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood.

She said: ‘I have nothing good to say about him and do not even want to say his name. My heart is still broken over Cathriona.’

Make-up artist Cathriona – who was also a celebrity stylist – had been in a tempestuous three-year relationship with Carrey when she took her own life nine years ago.

They began their on-off romance in 2012 when Cathriona was 27 and Carrey was 50.

Cathriona, 30, died on September 28 2015, after overdosing on a cocktail of prescription pills at her home in Los Angeles.

What followed was a bitter falling out between the star and Cathriona’s family in Ireland who accused him of being abusive towards her, introducing her to drugs and debauchery and giving her a sexually transmitted disease.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Carrey stepped back from his high-flying career limiting his screen appearances and announced two years ago that he was retiring from showbusiness.

At the time he said he would only return to acting if ‘angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink.’

While his career appears to be back on track Brigid, who is in her 70s, revealed her family had faced further heartbreak since their lives were shattered following the death of her daughter.

She said: ‘I have heard what he said about needing the money, and I do not care. If he is broke, I don’t care one bit.

‘I have never spoken to him and never want to speak to him. Since Cathriona’s death it has been the worst years.’

Brigid returned to Ireland two years ago and set up home with her husband Brian in the village of Doon in County Limerick after previously living in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

Her husband died soon after relocating to Ireland and Brigid has also been diagnosed with cancer.

In October 2015 Carrey was a pallbearer at Cathriona’s funeral in nearby Cappawhite, County Tipperary.

She was buried alongside her father Pat, who lost a 20-year battle with brain cancer in 2012, in a family plot that remains well tended with flowers and mini memorial plaques.

Carrey became embroiled in a bitter lawsuit with Brigid and Cathriona’s estranged cameraman husband Mark Burton who accused the actor of being responsible for her death.

Almost exactly a year after Cathriona’s death the pair filed a lawsuit in the US on the grounds of wrongful death and violation of the drug dealer liability act – accusing Carrey of abusing his ‘wealth and celebrity status’.

They claimed the Canadian actor illegally obtained the prescription drugs which led to Cathriona’s death, using a false name before supplying them to her.

And they accused the star of causing mental distress to Cathriona which contributed to her suicide.

Following the tragedy, lurid details about the couple’s relationship began to emerge including notes in which Cathriona accused the actor – who was 25 years her senior – of introducing her to a debauched life of sex and drugs and ‘giving her’ herpes.

One note Cathriona wrote two years before her death gave a damning description of how she felt the actor treated her.

She wrote on her iPad: ‘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.’

She spoke of the shame she felt over having STDs, which she claimed she’d contracted from Carrey.

Cathriona wrote: ‘You have not thought about the stigma I have to live with for the rest of my life, you have not apologised or once asked is there something you can do to make it better or even felt bad for it.

‘You gave me HSV and HPV, I want you to apologise for it because you care enough to. I want you to understand that however little a thing seems to you, it ruins a girl’s life.

‘I want you to take care when you are with other girls and pay attention to your body your actions effect people.’

Cathriona also said: ‘Before you, I might not have had very much but I had respect, I was a happy person.

‘I loved life, I was confident, and I felt good in my skin and was proud of most decisions I made, 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.’

Texts between the pair showed how Cathriona became concerned she had an STD in 2013, and texted Carrey telling him that she had tested before they got together so she couldn’t have caught an STD from anyone else.

In response, Carrey texted back and ended their relationship saying: ‘Don’t want to talk anymore… I’m done. You have become too much drama.’

In response to her family’s legal action, Carrey launched a counter lawsuit, dropping the bombshell that he had already paid Cathriona an undisclosed sum of money in 2013 to settle her STD claims, while demanding her mother and husband pay him back three times the original settlement.

He described Cathriona as a ‘beautiful but immature and emotionally damaged woman’ at the start of their relationship and alleged that her former attorney took advantage of her ‘warm and exciting’ romance with the star to profit.

The actor also said that Cathriona had blackmailed him by threatening to go public with what he said were false claims that he had given her sexually transmitted diseases unless he paid her millions of dollars.

Carrey was later cleared after his attorney found that Cathriona had edited the information on a friend’s STD test to make it look like it had belonged to her so that she could prove she was clean before entering into a relationship with Carrey.

Despite their earlier legal battle, the pair got back together in 2015.

The actor said he forgave her and that the couple continued building a future and started working on a co-habitation agreement so that she could permanently move in with him.

Cathriona was upset, he said, by his insistence that she sign a non-disclosure confidentiality agreement but that she otherwise seemed ‘happy’ until her 30th birthday on September 14.

He claimed her mother sent her an upsetting message on Facebook, saying she was ‘worthless’ and would ‘never amount to anything’.

It was this and her apparent guilt over ‘extorting’ him two years earlier which prompted her suicide, according to Carrey.

Cathriona, who according to loved ones had depressive tendencies, wrote several suicide notes before she took her own life.

One, written in 2012, describes Carrey as a ‘strong and wonderful human being’.

She ‘wrote: ‘I love Jim and I’m sorry I brought turmoil into his life.’

In May 2013, another note, written to her attorney, told a different story. It demanded that the world know he was responsible for her death.

She wrote: ‘I want you to get together and release to the press about all the physical abuse, mental abuse and diseases that Jim gave me.

‘Unfortunately, I don’t have the words to put to paper I am too numb.’

Her final suicide note, which was discovered near her body in 2015, was addressed to the actor.

It showed no signs that she was angry with him but hinted that their relationship had come into trouble.

It said: ‘Jim, I thought we had chosen each other. I believed it meant something and I let myself relax in your arms in the safety of being sure of one thing… us.

‘If everything went sideways we had each other. I’ve spent three days now in disbelief that you’re not here.

‘I thought when I saw you it would be OK again and it’s not.’

She signed it off: ‘I love you, please forgive me I’m just not for this world. Peace and love to all your hearts.’

Before her body was found, Carrey had sent a text message asking where his missing prescription painkillers were.

The LA Coroner’s report – obtained by Daily Mail Online – showed that Cathriona had taken the actor’s anti-inflammatory pills along with a cocktail of other drugs to end her life.

Her body was found by friends who had gone to her residence after a third party told them she had broken up with Carrey the week before.

After his appearance at her funeral, Carrey took a long break from the limelight.

Settled in the hills in his £25 million Los Angeles mansion – which he sold last year – he took up a new career.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, the actor said during his break from showbusiness he had taken up a career as a visual artist, with paintings, drawings and sculptures.

And in 2017 he explored his love for art in the 2017 documentary I Needed Colour.

Speaking on his fame during the interview he said: ‘You can dream about it all you want, but until you get it, you don’t realise that it’s really not a place that’s very comfortable for very long.’

Announcing his retirement in 2022, Carrey said: ‘I really like my quiet life and I really like putting paint on canvas and I really love my spiritual life and I feel like – and this is something you might never hear another celebrity say as long as time exists – I have enough. I’ve done enough. I am enough.’

While Carrey is set to wow audiences in his reprised role as Sonic’s arch-nemesis Doctor Robotnik, not everyone in Cathriona’s hometown is so impressed.

Friends in the small village that has a convenience store, two pubs, a fish and chip shop called Nico’s and a pharmacy, said the re-emergence of the actor will bring back painful memories of the tragedy.

Locals said Carrey has never been seen back to the village of 400 people since the funeral and many have mixed feelings about the star.

One said: ‘It was very tragic what took place and you can understand the anger that the family feel. No one would want to lose a daughter in that way.

‘It was almost a decade ago but I know it will still feel very raw for the family.’

Another local added:’ Carey was here for the funeral. Lots of people from the village attended, but he has never been seen back here since.

‘You can understand the grief of the family to lose someone so young and under such tragic circumstances.

‘I don’t think he would want to show his face here again. I do remember the funeral and lots of people came out to pay their respects.

‘I’m not a fan so will not be bothering to go and see his new film.’

Cathriona’s brother Jim, who lives in a neighbouring town of Annacarty, declined to comment about Carrey’s comeback when contacted by Mail Online.