A consolidated wrongful death suit filed against Jim Carrey by the estranged husband and mother of his late girlfriend has been dropped.
Carrey also filed court papers seeking partial dismissal of his countersuit against Mark Burton and Brigid Sweetman, which alleged they brought their actions to coerce him into agreeing to settle the case to avoid public embarrassment.
The documents filed by both sides on Jan. 25 in Los Angeles Superior Court do not state whether settlements were not reached.
Burton and Sweetman alleged that Carrey used a false name to obtain the drugs that 30-year-old Cathriona White used to kill herself in September 2015, and that he provided them to her despite knowing she was prone to depression and had previously attempted suicide.
Burton and Sweetman also alleged that Carrey gave White sexually transmitted diseases without warning her.
But the countersuit stated that White’s suicide was her own doing.
“Cat decided to end her life,” the countersuit stated. “She committed suicide by taking a cocktail of pills, some her own, others secretly taken by her from Jim’s home.”
In the three years before her death, White had previously contemplated suicide, the countersuit stated.
“Many of the suicide notes she wrote over the years had a common theme, `I am not for this world,”‘ the countersuit stated.
White told friends she hated her mother and had been estranged from her for years, the countersuit stated.
“In fact, other than seeing Ms. Sweetman at her sister’s wedding, Cat had no relationship with Ms. Sweetman during her adult life,” the countersuit stated.
—City News Service