He’s about to turn 61, Jim Carrey, who was Hollywood’s highest paid actor for his comedy roles in the 1990s, is currently out of the spotlightafter suffering several bouts of depression and relationship problems, including allegations relating to the suicide of one of his partners.
Ace Ventura, El Grinch, Two stupid so stupid, The Truman Show, The mask, compulsive liar, A place at home… The Canadian actor was the face protagonist of the big blockbusters at the end of the last century, which made him accumulate one of the great fortunes of the world cinema scene.
But this professional success has not been matched on a personal levelwhere the actor suffered from severe bouts of depression and had a lot of bad luck in love. His first marriage lasted eight years. and it was with fellow actress Melissa Womanr. From this union was born his only daughter, Jane Erin Carrey, who made him a grandfather.
A year after their divorce, he married in 1996 Lauren Holly, the actress with whom he had starred in the play Two stupid so stupid. Although this relationship lasted even less than her first marriage and did not last even a year. After her, he found love again in another film: Me, me and Irene. With the main actress of this tape, Renée Zellwegerit was compromised in the late 1990s, but it didn’t work out in the end.
He was also in a relationship with model Jenny McCarthy between 2005 and 2010, but possibly The relationship that marked the actor the most was the one he had with the make-up artist Cathriona Whitefor the hard end of this relationship with his suicide. The young woman, who died of a drug overdose, as confirmed by the autopsy, had left a note for the actor: “I have already gone three days without believing that you are not here. I can go on with a broken heart and put all the pieces back together. I could, only this time I don’t have the willpower,” she wrote.
The actor, who went to the young woman’s funeral in Ireland and carried the coffin, she received a lawsuit in 2016 from her husband at the time, even though they were separated. She accused him of supplying him with the substances to commit suicide, which he flatly denied.: “What a great shame. It would be easy for me to walk into a back room with this man’s lawyer to make her disappear, but there are times in life when you have to stand up and defend your honor against the evil of this world. I will not tolerate this ruthless attempt to exploit myself or the woman I loved. Cat’s problems started long before I met her and sadly her tragic end was beyond anyone’s control,” she said in a statement.
Her mother also denounced him for not informing the young woman that she has sexually transmitted diseases., but none of the requests were successful. Of course, his career suffered and suffered a break that kept him away from the public sphere for some time.
almost retired
The hard blows that life has dealt him on a personal level have made him want to retire from the more public aspect of his life. And while he was promoting his latest film last year, he hinted that he was already contemplating retirement.
“I love my quiet life, painting on a canvas, my spiritual life. I feel, and this is something you will never hear from another celebrity say, I’ve had enough. I’ve done enough. it is enough for me”said about the possible end of his career.
