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Heartbreaking notes before death of Jim Carrey's ex-girlfriend revealed

Co Tipperary-born Cathriona White with her then boyfriend Jim Carrey
Co Tipperary-born Cathriona White with her then boyfriend Jim Carrey Co Tipperary-born Cathriona White with her then boyfriend Jim Carrey

DETAILS of heartbreaking notes left for Jim Carrey by his Irish ex-girlfriend have emerged, as a coroner ruled her death was suicide.

The body of Tipperary-born make-up artist Cathriona White (30) was discovered at her home in Los Angeles in September.

A coroner's report found she died after taking a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.

Ms White and Carrey had broken up a week before her death and she left two notes for the Hollywood star in which she said she was "just not for this world", the report stated.

"I've spent three days now in disbelief that you're not here," she wrote. "I can go on broken-hearted and try to put the pieces back. 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."

Ms White signed off the note, which was found in a sealed envelope, with the word "Dewdrop".

A second note, also written to "Jim", asked for "his people" to sell her belongings and give the money to her family.

"Please forgive me. I'm just not for this world."

Ms White had moved to Los Angeles in 2009 and took roles as an extra on television before working behind the scenes.

The last activity on her phone was a three-minute FaceTime call with Carrey four days before she was found, the coroner said.

Her friend Dennis Bradshaw told investigators she was "happy and upbeat" but would get "really down" and her friends would not hear from her for a while.

She had told Mr Bradshaw she was missing her family in Ireland and she was "madly in love with Jim" but their relationship was a "rollercoaster".

"She tied her identity to him and if she felt he (Jim) was slipping away, she would become depressed," the report said.

Another friend, Jenny Burpee, said Carrey had first "unexpectedly" broken up with Ms White in 2013 and she had "not eaten or slept for a year afterwards".

Carrey carried the coffin at her funeral in the village of Cappawhite, Co Tipperary last year.

The actor described Ms White's death as like being "hit with a lightning bolt".