Cathriona White: ‘Jim, I’m not for this world please forgive me’
The 30-year-old originally from Cappawhite, Co Tipperary, was found dead in her rented LA home on September 28 last year after taking her own life.
The young woman, who was 5ft 3in in height, had only been dead for several hours despite not being seen for four days prior to her death.
The star sent his personal assistant, Nicole Montez, to Ms White’s rented home at Briarwood Drive, Sherman Oak, just outside LA, after becoming concerned when he could not reach her on the phone.
A suicide letter addressed to Carrey found on the dining room table at her home, read: “I’ve spent three days now in disbelief that you’re not here. I can go on and try to put the pieces back together. I could, I just don’t have the will this time.
“I’m sorry you felt I wasn’t there for you. I tried to give you my best part.”
Her letter also said: “Jim, I’m not for this world please forgive me. I don’t really know about burial or that sort of thing. You are my family so whatever you choose will be fine.”
She then asks for her furniture to be sold and any monies to be given to her family.
The end of the note has “Dewdrop” in what appears to be her signature. There was no date on the note.
The last phonecall she had with Carrey was a FaceTime call at 9.48am on September 24 and it ended 30 minutes later. There was also a text message from the star at 3.37pm three days later on September 27 asking her if she knew where his painkillers went from under the sink and mentioned that there was a full prescription with anti-inflammatories for his back and the bottle was no longer there.
The reports says: “Given this, it appears that the bottles with the name Arthur King, found on her bedside table were the prescriptions he was referring to.”
Ms White was found dead in bed dressed in a T-shirt and underwear. There was no sign of trauma and foul play was ruled out.
A friend, Jenny Burpee, who was one of the people who found her body, said in her statement to the coroner’s office that Ms White had dated Carrey for several years but that the couple had broken up in 2013. The pair started dating again early last year.
Ms Burpee said after Carrey had unexpectedly broken it off with Ms White three years ago, she “literally” had not eaten or slept for a year afterwards.
The report also shows that CCTV checked by Carrey’s personal assistant found that Ms White was last seen entering her home four days before her body was found on September 24 and had not left again.
The beautician and make-up artist had broken up with Carrey days before. The report shows she had told friends prior to her death that “...she was madly in love with Jim and that their relationship was a rollercoaster... that she tied her identity to his and that she felt he was slipping away from her.”
The official document confirms that she was previously married to Mark Burton who said that he was aware that his former wife suffered with depressive episodes and had spoken about suicide.
In a report released by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, the investigation into the cause of her death was due to suicide as a result of overdosing on multiple drugs. The drugs found beside her bed had the name Arthur King on them.
Texts seen on her phone from Carrey asked where were his pills for his back.
The investigator Kelli Blanchard said in the autopsy report that Ms White did not have any other injuries and her body showed early signs of decomposition.
The report states that she had no known mental health issues in the US but that friends said that she did have “depressive” qualities and may have attempted suicide two years ago following the ending of a relationship years previously.
It also states that friends went to her residence after they had heard from a third party that she had just broken up with her boyfriend a week previously.
The Tipperary native was found in her bed surrounded by prescription bottles.
Dennis Bradshaw, along with his wife Lena and Carrey’s personal assistant Nicole Montez, became concerned about her when they had not heard from her.
They tried to gain entry through the front door of her residence, where she lived alone at Briarwood Drive, Sherman Oak, but the door was locked. They managed to gain entry through a side entrance, they found her lifeless body in the master bedroom. She was holding a mobile phone in her hand. Mr Bradshaw found Carrey’s number on her phone and called and told him Ms White was dead.
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