Jim Carreys Shocking Transformation and Career Downfall

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'.

'I love Jim and I'm sorry I brought turmoil into his life,' she wrote.

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.

'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 the words to put to paper I am too numb,' she wrote.

Her final suicide note, which were 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.

'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 3 days now in disbelief that you're not here.

'I thought when I saw you it would be OK again and it's not,' it said.

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, Jim 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.

Despite the lawsuit being dropped, the scandal tainted the star's image and he retreated from public life until 2020 when he began to feature in films again.  

Prior to Cathriona, Jim had a colourful love life with a string of failed high profile relationships and splits, with the star attributing his public lifestyle as the reason for their failures. 

He married former actress Melissa Womer in 1987, and together, they welcomed a daughter, named Jane, later that year.

But their marriage came to an end in 1995, after eight years together. 

Life could be tough with an ‘extremely depressive person’, Melissa said, recalling how he would sit on the floor and howl, and she would ‘sit up counselling him through it until four or five in the morning on many, many nights’. 

But then Jim became famous with the 1994 comedy film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and his spirits soared.

After that box-office hit, he admitted he had had trouble coming home to domesticity and Melissa recalled: ‘He decided he wanted to enjoy success from the perspective of a single man.’

He then went on to wed his Dumb and Dumber co-star Lauren Holly in 1996, but that romance didn't even last a full year and was over by 1997. 

At the time, Jim acknowledged he had hated being the mega-star bachelor who ‘could get laid every hour on the hour… I quickly found out that I’m not the dog that I thought it was maybe possible for me to be’.

He claimed he wanted to settle down ‘at a certain point’ with a woman he could grow old with.

Even so, he insisted, monogamy was not man’s natural state. It was certainly not his.

His marriage to Lauren lasted just eight months before they divorced, citing the usual ‘irreconcilable differences’.

In 1999 he became engaged to his Me, Myself and Irene co-star Renee Zellweger but he allegedly dragged his feet on officially tying the knot and the Bridget Jones star gave him an ultimatum to marry her within six months.

When the actor dithered, they had a furious row at his Los Angeles home and a devastated Renee ended up going to Hawaii –— a Christmas holiday they had planned as a pre-honeymoon — on her own. 

In 2002 he was in a relationship with actress January Jones.

From 2005 to 2010 he was then in a relationship with model Jenny McCarthy – before meeting Cathriona two years later.

Jim and Jenny started a five-year relationship in 2005 and were brought closer together through autism, a condition that afflicted Evan, her young son from a previous marriage.

After the couple split up, Jenny launched a bitter attack on Jim, accusing him of walking out on a boy who had regarded him as a father figure. 

After Cathriona, his next relationship was in 2019 when he attended the Golden Globes party with Ginger Gonzaga, the pair split after less than a year of dating. 

He is currently in a relationship with Min Ah, after the pair made their debut together at the César Awards on Friday. 

Jim made tribute to her in his acceptance speech as he added: 'Thank you to my wonderful family, my daughter Jane, and my grandson Jackson. 

'I love you now and forever. Thank you to my sublime companion, Min Ah. I love you, Min Ah. 

'And finally, thank you to the funniest man I have ever known: my father, Percy Joseph Carrey who taught me the value of love, generosity, and laughter.'

Jim has also been open about his battle with depression, revealing he has suffered from a young age and took Prozac, an anti-depressant, in the 90s.

He has previously admitted it is only ‘valuable for short periods of time’ and prevents people from ‘addressing the real problem’.

‘I was on it for a long time,’ he said in 2004.

‘It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit. I don’t take anything now, I rarely drink coffee. No alcohol and no drugs, life is too beautiful.’

In 2017 he confirmed: 'At this point, I don’t have depression. There is not an experience of depression.

'I had that for years, but now, when the rain comes, it rains, but it doesn’t stay. It doesn’t stay long enough to immerse me and drown me anymore.'

Telling the i that he was no longer worried about the public legacy he will leave behind he said: 'I’m free of the business. I’m not the business.

'I don’t care what people think of me after I die. All I want is for people to think of me as a good energy here, a nice fragrance that has been left behind.'

He said: 'I’m perfectly fine with everything that has happened, even the horrible s**t you know, in life and in art. There is a lot of satisfaction about looking back at those things.'

However, he went on to say that there are still clouds hanging over him, explaining: 'What’s happening is really good, but there is some really bad in there too.

'Some people have come at me in the last couple of years with the intent of breaking off a piece of the Holy Grail for themselves, but the Grail isn’t a thing that you can break off. So they’re going to learn that the hard way. It’s not pleasant.'

Jim also began to face a slew of controversies throughout the 2010s, which eventually caused him to largely retreat from the spotlight.

He faced severe backlash online over some of his actions and comments - most notable was his controversial stance on vaccines.

Back in 2015, he went on a fierce tirade against immunizations online. He said he believed that the chemicals in the shots were causing a host of problems in children, and pointed to the growing number of autism cases in the country.

But his views were widely slammed due to the lack of medical proof.

In 2022, he came under fire again after he condemned Will Smith over his infamous Oscars slap.

Will stormed on stage and hit host Chris Rock in the face after he made a joke about the actor's then-wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

'I was sickened by the standing ovation,' Jim said of the moment afterwards on Gayle King. 'I felt like Hollywood is just spineless en masse.

'You do not have the right to walk up on stage and smack somebody in the face because they said words.'

Amid his comments, people on social media began bringing up things that Jim had done in the past that they found problematic, and branded him a 'hypocrite.'

One person spoke about the time that he kissed then-20-year-old Alicia on stage at the MTV Movie Awards.

Footage of the incident, which occurred in 1997, showed a then-35-year-old Jim grabbing the actress by the head and planting his lips on hers, while she tried to push him off her.

'It's amazing that Jim Carrey sexually assaulted Alicia Silverstone by physically forcing her to kiss him on national TV, when she was [20], and it had literally no impact on his career whatsoever,' the social media user wrote. 'He's such a complete piece of s*** on so many levels.'

'Regardless of age or age gaps, what Jim Carrey did was ASSAULT. He's scum and he had no business forcing himself on people,' someone else agreed.

Neither Jim nor Alicia have ever publicly spoken about the kiss, but it was reported that he 'apologized' to her backstage afterwards.

After his career began to slow down, in April 2022 Jim revealed that he was thinking of quitting acting for good, while promoting Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

However he later returned for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, claiming he 'needed the money'. 

'You know, I bought a lot of stuff and I need the money, frankly,' he said.

When asked about his past comments about retiring, he added, 'That might've been hyperbole, yeah.

'I came back to this universe because I get to play a genius, which is a bit of a stretch.'