Jim Carrey is now claiming that his late girlfriend contracted the STDs that supposedly made her suicidal before meeting him — and not after, like her family alleges.
Court documents filed Friday by the actor’s lawyer, Ray Boucher, accuse Cathriona White of hatching an elaborate extortion plot against the 55-year-old, complete with fake medical records and text messages, which made it seem like she was clean.
While White’s mother and estranged husband are suing Carrey — under the claim that she became suicidal after he gave her Herpes 1, Herpes II and gonorrhea — his legal team says it’s all a ruse.
According to the court documents, which were filed in connection to the wrongful death lawsuit as a motion to compel, White was attempting to extort “millions of dollars” from the “Dumb and Dumber” star “through smears and threats of public degradation via false allegations.”
Specifically, the docs state that White told Carrey she would lie and tell people that he gave her STDs — when in reality, she already had them.
“When the threats were met with silence, White asked and obtained a copy of her friend’s Planned Parenthood records,” the motion says. “White’s intent in obtaining these records was clear — she cooked the records, creating forgeries with altered information, phony tests, and fictitious dates. A ruse, needed to support her lie, in July 2013, White and her attorney Marchino used the counterfeit records to extort money from Carrey.”
In the motion, the actor’s legal team describes how White and her pal exchanged text messages about the extortion scheme — which he obtained after the friend chose to come forward.
“Babe can you get those tests today it’s important. I will pay you to go [sic] them if you have to take time off work,” White allegedly wrote on April 22, 2013.
The friend apparently got the testing done and the two later set a meeting, the docs say.
“I need to see the layout …I will need to work on it before I give it to him,” White said in another text from May 17, 2013.
According to the court docs, she later presented the phony forms to the actor, along with her records from the medical test she took after sleeping with him — claiming they were proof that he gave her the STDs.
“This motion seeks an admission of the truth; namely that White had multiple STDs before meeting Carrey or nonforged copies of December 28, 2011 records of White, records that do not and have never actually existed,” the docs say, noting how White accused Carrey of giving her herpes a full two years before her suicide.
“Recognizing that Carrey was conned before, White’s green-card husband, Mark Burton, and her estranged and emotionally abusive mother, Brigid Sweetman, decided to get a second bite at the apple by filing a lawsuit claiming Mr. Carrey caused White’s death, exploiting the judicial system with fraudulent ‘evidence’ in a continued effort to extort Carrey.”