Legal representatives for Jim Carrey have branded as “outrageous” the recent accusation made by his ex-girlfriend’s current husband that the actor gave her STDs before she committed suicide.

The wrongful death lawsuit filed earlier this week against Carrey, by Cathriona White’s estranged husband Mark Burton, was amended on Thursday (September 22nd) to include an allegation that White was suicidal because she had a sexually transmitted disease she believed the Hollywood star had given to her.

White, an Irish-born make-up artist, was Carrey’s on-off girlfriend for three years before she was found dead from a prescription drug overdose in September 2015 at the age of 30. Carrey acted as a pallbearer at her funeral.

Jim CarreyJim Carrey in September 2016

Burton, who was White’s husband from 2013 but had been living separately from her for several months at the time of her death, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday this week, which said that Carrey used his “celebrity status” to illegally obtain the prescriptions drugs that were involved in her overdose.

According to TMZ, the amended suit explosively alleges that Carrey gave her Herpes Type 1, Herpes Type 2 and gonorrhoea in 2013, and that the actor then pressured her into keeping quiet in a series of text messages.

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A statement issued later on Thursday by Carrey’s lawyer Marty Singer not only “categorically disputed” Burton’s fresh allegations, but also branded the whole lawsuit “outrageous” and a “desperate, bogus claim made by the ‘husband’ of the sham marriage”.

“The conduct of the parties confirms that the allegations will be proven false,” Singer’s statement continued according to Mirror Celebs. “Significantly, the alleged text messages referred to were sent in 2013, yet in November of 2014, Ms. White sought out my client and asked him to continue a serious relationship.

“The conduct of the parties confirms that the allegations will be proven false. Significantly, the alleged text messages referred to were sent in 2013, yet in November of 2014, Ms. White sought out my client and asked him to continue a serious relationship.”

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