Jim Carrey may now face trial (Picture: WireImage)

Jim Carrey is set to face trial for the death of his girlfriend Cathriona White after a judge indicated on Wednesday she was not yet ready to throw out the case brought by White’s mother and ex-husband.

Inside Jim Carrey and Cathriona White’s relationship as the Hollywood actor faces trial

Brigid Sweetman, Ms White’s mother, claims Carrey, 55, provided the prescription drugs that White later overdosed on, however Carrey’s lawyer, Raymond Boucher, had previously filed a motion to dismiss the case

After the hearing, he said: ‘Mr Carrey loved Ms White dearly and so obviously it will be a very painful process for him.’

However the judge made it clear that she wanted to continue to study the issues further, and she was not ready to issue a final ruling.




White’s death was ruled as suicide with the LA County Coroner’s office releasing details from the post-mortem in July 2016.

Jim Carrey attends the funeral of Cathriona White (Picture: FilmMagic)

Carrey and White, a 30-year-old Irish make up artist, had separated in the days before her death and he had text her the night before asking about a bottle of painkillers that had gone missing.

Bottles next to her bed were later revealed to be under the pseudonym Arthur King, and intended for Carrey.

According to ET, the report states: ‘Given this, it appears likely that the bottles for ‘Arthur King’ found on [White’s] bedside table were the prescriptions he was referring to [in the text message].’

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The Dumb And Dumber actor has denied all the allegations, with lawyers describing them as ‘predatory’ and ‘malicious’.

Ahmed Ibrahim, Ms Sweetman and White’s ex-husband Mark Burton lawyer, urged Judge Deirdre Hill of Los Angeles Superior Court not to delay proceedings any longer and admitted that the case, which involves the Drug Dealer Liability Act, is not typical.

‘We are clearly not alleging that Jim Carrey was selling drugs out of the back of his pickup truck and was therefore not marketing or selling in the traditional sense of what that word would bring to mind,’ he said, according to local newspaper MyNewsLA.com, who also report that Boucher ‘argued the plaintiffs’ court papers are vague regarding the wrongful death claim because they do not state whether they believe White died from negligence or from an intentional act’.

‘I need clarity and that’s fair,’ Boucher said.

Cathriona and Jim (Picture: AKM/GSI/Splash)

Carrey paid tribute to White in a heartfelt statement at the time of her death: ‘I am shocked and deeply saddened by the passing of my sweet Cathriona.

‘She was a truly kind and delicate Irish flower, too sensitive for this soil, to whom loving and being loved was all that sparkled. My heart goes out to her family and friends and to everyone who loved and cared about her. We have all been hit with a lightning bolt.’

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