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I have mixed feelings about Jenny McCarthy. I still remember her as the sexy doofus on “Singled Out,” which seemed to be playing on MTV constantly when I was in high school. She’s carved out a career for herself, and she’s going to appear in Playboy again as well as host a dating show called “Love In The Wild.” She’s also a controversial advocate for autism awareness, having founded a school and advocated for the Green Our Vaccines campaign. Jenny claims her son Evan, 10, from her first marriage, is autistic. She also claims that she successfully treated Evan with diet and alternative therapies. (A 2010 article in Time speculated that Evan may have a milder disorder called Landau-Kleffner syndrome.) Whatever the case, Evan was diagnosed with autism.
Jenny’s son formed quite a bond with her then-boyfriend, Jim Carrey, whom she dated from about 2005 to 2010. Jim was around for Evan’s formative years, and Jenny called him “the autism whisperer,” saying in 2007 that Jim had “helped Evan get past some obstacles I couldn’t. He speaks a language Evan understands, and Evan feels safe with him.”
According to Jenny, Evan still asks about Jim all the time and she’s upset that Jim hasn’t reached out to Evan in the years since their breakup. She admits that she hasn’t personally contacted Jim to tell him this, although she says she’s gone through “channels” to reach him. Here’s more:
McCarthy, who dated the 50-year-old comedian for more than five years, says Carrey — who has spoken publicly before about his lifelong struggle with depression — has completely turned his back on McCarthy’s autistic son Evan, 10, following their 2010 split.
“I’ve tried to ask [Jim] numerous times [to see Evan], because my son still asks,” the Love in the Wild host, 39, told Stern, adding that Evan tells her he misses Carrey “almost weekly.”
McCarthy revealed that, while she doesn’t feel like she can communicate with Carrey herself, she’s gone through “channels” in an attempt to convince the actor to talk to her son.“I haven’t [reached out directly] . . . I think that sometimes people need to take a real break from each other,” she explained. “But I still love him. I think you can love people from a distance and respect him. But as a mother, you just hope when you have a relationship with someone, it has nothing to do with the child when you break up.”
Added the former Playboy model (who also revealed she lets Evan watch her ex’s films), “I tell [Evan] that someday you’ll cross paths, meet again. . . [but] it’s hard. He’s been in therapy. It’s a process, he’s working on it.”
Even though she hates the impact her breakup has had on her child, McCarthy says she still doesn’t regret her and Carrey’s decision to part ways.
“Jim’s a dark guy,” Stern remarked during their discussion.
“As you get older, Howard, you kind of get to see things more clearly,” McCarthy explained about moving on from her ex-love. “Hopefully you get happier [over time], and I am so much happier.”
Contributing to McCarthy’s happiness? Her new relationship with Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher.
Her rep confirmed to E! News recently that the model and NFL player are indeed a couple. McCarthy and Urlacher, who have been dating quietly since April, made their public debut together during a date night last month at Giuliana and Bill Rancic’s Chicago eatery, RPM Italian.
[From US Weekly]
I feel like this isn’t fair to her son for Jenny to put this out there. Yes it’s sad that Jim hasn’t contacted him, but it sounds like Jenny has only barely tried to contact Jim in a roundabout way and hasn’t told him directly what’s going on. It’s not right to make a public statement that her son misses her ex and is in therapy because of it. Jenny never had much of a filter though. She told Oprah that she broke up with Jim Carrey because “it wasn’t fun anymore.” Reports at the time claimed that Jim was in a deep depression, having gone off his medication for bipolar disorder. There were rumors that Jim had given Jenny a whopping $25 million in trust for Evan after their breakup, although those originated in Star Magazine and it’s hard to know whether they were true. She’s moved on now, but it’s sad that her kid still misses Jim and asks about him. I don’t get the sense that Jim would ignore Evan, but I have no idea.
Jenny and Jim are shown in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Credit: WENN.com and FameFlynet
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Breakups, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Photos
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Why doesn’t his father see him?
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Can anyone else never see the first comments?
ETA: Once I commented under it I could see it. Odd. How to fix? I can’t be the only one…
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Happens to me all the time–I can’t see it unless there is a follow up comment. Not on my phone, though, just on the computer. (even when I switch browsers)
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hook up with a cray cray and it’s never pretty
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Same thing for me. I never realized there needed to be a reply in order for me to see it!
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According to TMZ, Jim has responded:
“Carrey says, “I will always do what I believe is in the best interest of Evan’s well being. It’s unfortunate that Evan’s privacy is not being considered. I love Evan very much and will miss him always.”
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That’s why you’re not supposed to get your children involved with your boyfriends. I know they were together a long time, but that is the risk you take with their hearts when you’re a single mother. I did it once too. Hopefully its a mistake she wont make again.
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I would agree if this had been a 2 week fling, but how are you supposed to avoid your kids getting a connection to your new partner in a 5 yr relationship?
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U figure it out. U just do it. U separate the time and u protect your kids. It’s not that hard. She was simply careless and selfish. Her child was not her priority. Jim was.
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@Lilalis – I agree with you that it just doesn’t seem feasible to completely keep your children out of a long term relationship that has lasted *years*. Earlier on? Of course. It’s the right thing to do, but beyond that, I just don’t see how you can completely compartmentalize your life when the person you’re dating has become such a big part of it for you.
Having to keep them separated, you’d either not have enough time to spend on your relationship, or you’d not have enough time to spend with your child.
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I was married to my childs step-father for 8 years and as soon as we were divorced he never ever reached out to my son even once. He’s was the only father my son had from the age of 6 through 13. He was gone like the wind. It surprised me at the time. Some men just don’t connect I guess.
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I guess a lot of guys don’t feel like they can separate the relationship with the children apart from the relationship with the mother. Like emotionally, there’s no way for them to continue being involved. Especially not when the relationship was long term, & ended painfully/in bad terms.
The situation you’re describing with the children’s step-father is horrible. I’ve been very fortunate that my step-father was my late father’s best friend, & always treated me like his own child. I realize all the time how badly it could’ve gone.
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Hmmmm…. I’m not sure either if her new boyfriend would feel comfortable if Carrey stick close to her son. Isn’t it awkward if you are trying to built a relationship with someone and the ex-boy/girlfriend (NOT the father/mother of the child) still a big figure in the child’s life??
Also, as sad as it is, how bout Carrey’s feelings then? If he still has some lingering feelings for her is it fair for him to stay around with her son while she’s in another relationship? It’s just a mess for everybody involved. If her child miss him, it would be better if she reach out to Carrey privately. Perhaps Carrey has other consideration on why he never stay in touch anymore.
IMO it’s best to be careful in introducing your boyfriend/girlfriend to your child, especially if the child still very young. Hmmm…this makes me think about the concern in J.lo’s situation. She introduced Casper to her children waaayyy too fast.
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On top of that, Jim was dealing with pretty serious mental/psychological issues. Maybe he needed time to work that out?
She really should have called him. I am not a fan of this story at all :-/
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Yeah I’m Team Jim on this. She’s putting the burden of this on Jim, yet she can’t even talk to him herself. Not a good sign. The whole situation seems off.
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This seems like a douchey thing to do ( on Jenny’s part) as much as I can’t stand Jim I would think that if he knew her son was missing him that he would call him or something. Then again it might be for the best for every one dto cut off contact completely. Ugh this story put me in a funky mood.
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Seriously? Is anyone really dumb enough to believe Jim set up for him a 25 million dollar trust? His own daughter doesn’t even have that kind of trust I bet.
He has a father, but Jenny was the primary caregiver, and Jim lived with them for like five years and had a bond with him. It is sad and disappointing that Jim doesn’t have empathy for the little fella.
But Jenny doesn’t need to be airing this crap publically in such detail.
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Agree. If Jim is unstable I wouldn’t want him near my child. A strange story…not suprised Jenny has a few new projects in the works to promote coincidentally. Jim has no obligation to continue a relationship with Jenny or her child if it’s not his.
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when there is a father (even a non-custodial one) and a new relationship to muddy the waters, it can be very confusing for a child to have his mother’s ex around and you can run the risk that the child pine’s for the mother and the ex to get back together (the way some children, even when they know their parents are wrong for one another, pine for their divorced parents to reunite).
Jenny often resorts to hyperbole to make herself look good/better (remember the story she told about how her son was in the hospital, unable to breath and visibly cyanotic -she claims he was clearly blue – and the hospital staff said they’d watch the kid for an hour and if he doesn’t improve they’d put him on a ventilator but she begged Evan to breath better and prayed and cried *blahblahblah* and an hour later when the staff came to check on him he was perfectly fine? – she seriously jumped the shark on that one, no responsible physician, let alone hospital staff, would be that flippant about respiratory intervention for a child who was hypoxic, let alone one who was visibly cyanotic & critically ill as McCarthy claimed).
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Ha! I didn’t know about that. You’re spot on, olcranky. There is no way a patient would be left cyanotic to see how they go for an hour, especially a child.
She has real issues. Generating attention for herself from her child’s illness is just sick.
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We don’t know if Jim has empathy or not. It is awful for her to do this publicly.
However, maybe Jim swore he’d be in that child’s life forever. We do NOT know.
It is ridiculous for people to say she shouldn’t have introduced Jim to Evan. They were living as a married couple. Why let a child miss out on a father-figure for 5 yrs?
I’m a step-mom and it would devastate me to lose my stepsons. My biggest fear is that my hubby dies because I’d lose all 3 loves of my life at once.
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If it’s such a huge deal, pick up the phone and call Jim directly! If she made a concerted, direct effort to contact him, but he doesn’t respond or says no, then I would agree she has a legitimate reason to bitch. Otherwise STFU, Jenny!
@Tiffany27: I agree.
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agreed….if it’s so important to retain the bond with YOUR child, then pick up the phone and explain the situation……..
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Exactly. And while she’s complaining she’s flaunting her new guy and promoting her new projects. Lame.
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^^^ THIS.
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Coming out with this doesn’t make anyone look good…I don’t see the point to it.
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Well, this is why it is hard to have relationships when you have children. The kids get attached and if you break up, the kids lose out. The only person who is responsible for maintaining a relationship with the child after breaking up with her is his father. Perhaps she should focus on that?
I have no respect for anyone who encourages the public not to vaccinate their children anyway. It’s absolutely irresponsible. She needs to just STFU and stop letting the public know how stupid she is.
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ITA with everything you said. I have a friend whose pre-teen daughter died from meningitis (because the vaccine wasn’t available when her daughter was a baby) and she’s a huge proponent for vaccination. The mere sight of Jenny makes her seethe with anger. She holds Jenny somewhat responsible for the new anti-vaccine movement. I can’t say I blame her either. Jenny did back that quack who falsified the studies linking vaccines to autism. Also, claiming to have cured your child of autism through diet is pretty out there. The woman appears to be a flake.
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It’s so dangerous. There are plenty of crackpots out there misinforming the public. They shouldn’t be allowed to do it.
Do you remember Christine Maggiore? She’s the woman who believed HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. She refused to have her children tested, or treated, despite being HIV+ herself. She refused to take antiviral medication while pregnant and even breastfed her children. Instead of facing reality, she and her daughter died of AIDS. Heidi Fleiss’ father was one of the enabling paediatricians.
She was educated and eloquent and encouraged many other mothers to remain in denial as well instead of facing up to their mistakes and not letting their kids pay for them.
There are far too many people who will listen to people like this instead of finding out for themselves. Celebs have a responsibility to be cautious about what they influence the public with. These types of people are all menaces to society. Nothing annoys me more than people using their position to teach crackpot shit to the gullible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maggiore
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Yeah Jenny’s done some serious damage within the autism community, which is seriously divided over the causes and the notion of a cure. The vaccine issue is a huge s%^&storm in and of itself. It’s heartbreaking because people should really be coming together in dealing with the disorder, which is becoming more and more prevalent, instead of tearing each other apart. The quackery Jenny endorses really doesn’t help at all.
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People are divided because theories with no scientific merit get sold to them by people like this egocentric idiot, McCarthy. Instead of not knowing what the cause of autism is, they now have an opinion before there are facts. An opinion that conveniently lays blame with anyone else except themselves and that protects them from facing the possibility that their own DNA caused it. It’s a dangerous opinion that will cause far more problems than it claims to be trying to stop.
As with anything unknown, we all need to wait until reputable scientists find the cause, and their results are repeated by their colleagues. Until then, it’s all just dangerous speculation.
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Jenny’s anti-vaccine stand is downright dangerous. Vaccines are there for a reason.
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@sarahtonin she’s the one who wrote the book, right? the book that one of my friends was able to debunk pretty much everything in it from some willful misinterpretations of data to some clear lack of understanding of it.
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@olcranky, yes, there was at least one book. She was a very public advocate for AIDS denialism. She and her partner, Robin Scovill, did docos and book(s), and of course the media gave her plenty of attention so she got her word out far and wide. I haven’t read the book, but I can imagine what sort of rubbish is in it. The usual conspiracy theory stuff, half baked ideas that can’t be backed up with any legitimate science, selectively choosing bits and pieces to suit their cause and omitting the rest because it contradicts them. For example, she claimed that AIDS symptoms could be attributed to unhealthy lifestyle choices such as drug addiction. I guess her toddler was a rampant smack junkie then?
If you’re interested, here’s an article. A bit of damage control from one of the papers that used to give her a platform perhaps but an interesting read nonetheless. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/24/local/me-eliza24
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I have several friends who are on a delayed or limited vax schedule, which is a-ok by me. But I just can’t get behind folks who refuse to vax their kids against anything. It creates a public health risk people! I just can’t understand a decision that puts kids in harms way
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There are places that are too dangerous to take newborns now because the population of that area are against vaccinations. As a result, diseases are becoming prevalent there and babies too young to be immunised are at risk. (See Byron Bay, Australia, big alternative lifestyle community). They don’t realise they are putting the rest of the community, incl other children at risk, just because of their misguided information. Those people don’t get a choice. The real people to blame are the medical professionals who promote these ideas for their own notoriety. These people should be prosecuted when children die. I expect there will be lawsuits in the future where children, disabled by disease, sue their ignorant parents for not taking proper care of them.
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@ sarahtonin…I agree with everything you said.
She does love to blame other people for her son’s condition. Maybe she should look at herself!
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I doubt she has the insight to look at herself, except for in the mirror to reassure herself that she is still pretty.
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she seems to really enjoy using her son for publicity.
she gives dumb blondes a bad name.
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Jim suffers from mental health issues himself, and to expect him to put himself in what might be an extremely emotionally difficult situation that could jeopardize his mental health isn’t a reasonable expectation. I realize it has to be hard on her son, but considering she should know about Carrey’s mental health issues, it seems really rude and inconsiderate to talk about this so publicly.
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Not to mention it could be dangerous exposing her son if Jim hasn’t been able to work on his issues.
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Jenny burnt that bridge with Jim when she went on Oprah talking abut she dumped him because he wasn’t fun anymore.
I don’t understand why she would put thi current info out, especially without trying to contact Jim first.
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Airing this publicly is really quite vile. I feel for this poor child. Can’t imagine learning my ‘warrior mom’ couldn’t be bothered to directly contact the man I thought of as my father for 5 years. Not shocked that such a classy woman would try to publicly shame her ex by using her child.
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He isn’t the boy’s father, Jenny. I’ m not sure why you think he has an obligation to your son. He has his own child, and I believe, grandchild as well.
I’ve mentioned this before, but Jim once said he never wanted a bunch of satellite families. I guess he knows his limitations.
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I don’t get it. This isn’t his kid. She broke up with him. Yes, he is autistic, but that doesn’t suddenly mean he has to be in his life forever. Yes, the sentiment is nice and everything, but there is no obligation on his part. He has issues of his own, and she KNOWS that, considering how much she brings it up. It’s not fair to put it off on him as though he doesn’t care. What about you, lady? Did you explain to your son WHY you aren’t together? I bet it doesn’t make for good conversation when you tell your son with autism that you left the man he obviously cares about because he has “mental issues”. And then to be like, “Yeah, I tried to reach out to him, but not me, I went through some channels..” Whatever. You couldn’t be bothered to tell him yourself and instead took it public after your “channels” didn’t pan out. Ugh. I just don’t like this woman.
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I agree with EVERYTHING you said. It’s a very VERY nice sentiment, but you really can’t expect someone to still be a part of your child(ren’s) life if you break up. It’s gotta be awkward, because it’s not like a mom is going to be like, “oh here, go off with my ex boyfriend by yourself,” so they are going to be hanging out. Even if it’s an amicable split, it’s bound to be awkward.
However, if you still wish for them to have a relationship, you pick up your own phone and call! You are responsible if you don’t do anything to foster that relationship…don’t depend on someone else who has their own problems to just be able to guess what you want!
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I agree with EVERYTHING you said. It’s a very VERY nice sentiment, but you really can’t expect someone to still be a part of your child(ren’s) life if you break up. It’s gotta be awkward, because it’s not like a mom is going to be like, “oh here, go off with my ex boyfriend by yourself,” so they are going to be hanging out. Even if it’s an amicable split, it’s bound to be awkward.
Thank you!!!
My mom dated after her divorce from my dad. Dated, meaning going out to dinners and occasional sleepovers. She allowed these men to interact with us, and we loved them because they were nice to us. But she didn’t muddied things up by letting them move into our house or by moving us to their homes. When they broke up, we didn’t see these men again, unless it was happenstance, and usually, the men were happy to see us because they genuinely liked us. Hell, she never told us that they were dating, much less breaking up.
Judging from Jenny’s statement, she has the mindset of the child versus the parent. A child doesn’t understand, but a parent should.
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i thought that the latest info was that her kid was misdiagnosed with autism? whatever it is, she’s an idiot and a public health threat.
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She claims to have cured his autism by diet. She is a loon
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and curing by diet means he’s not autistic, he probably has an inborn error of metabolism (many of which can lead to significant neurological dysfunction). Of course admitting to that wouldn’t be convenient unless she and her quack doctor (and I’m shocked Mayim Bialek uses the same pediatrician) find a new clever way to blame vaccines and continue to support the likes of Wakefield (a man who violated almost every tenet of ethical conduct in clinical research and medicine)
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it sounds like she was being interviewed, yes? so she was asked, she answered truthfully (it sounds), non-story here. PLUS, they were clearly in love at the time…. you cant mingle around and stay in contact when youre trying to breakup. if you still love each other, its TORTURE. its possible that J.C. was advised that floating in & out of the childs path might do more harm than good? who can say … he’s obviously a sensitive man.
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Does anyone understand her statement But as a mother, you just hope when you have a relationship with someone, it has nothing to do with the child when you break up”? Didn’t she break up with him? She makes it seem like Jim ended things with her because he couldn’t deal with her son, but that’s not how things happened right?
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I am now convinced she is an A-hole. Urlacher better run while he can.
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Yes. She is a douche for putting this story out there, but never making an effort to contact Jim directly. She sucks. Makes him look like the bad guy.
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Heck Urlacher is washed up and still has Paris Hilton funk on him. I think these two make an excellent match.
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Urlacher is an AHole too. All kinds of drama with his baby mama. He didn’t want to pay
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Wow, I already had zero respect for this woman with the incredibly negative impact she has had on a major public health issue (namely, vaccination). And I have always been uncomfortable with the extent to which she seemed to be using her child and her child’s issues to keep her name in the press and push her own career forward.
But now that she has a new relationship with a sports celeb, and some new things to promote, she chooses to make statements like this in such a public way? It’s pretty disgusting, honestly.
I thought I couldn’t dislike her any more than I already did, but this is way over the line.
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Well that was a dick move on her part.
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Very succinct!
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There’s something about this woman that just puts me off, can’t put my finger on it.
edit: I got it, I think she’s a bully. She publicly aired this dirty laundry as a way to force Jim to call/see her son, and if he doesn’t she can later on call him a really bad guy. Also, I think she bullys people when it comes to the vaccine/non-vaccine debate..
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While it may not be nice to ‘call him out publically’ on it, she is probably going off the premise that he hasnt shown any INITIATIVE or in other words INTEREST to directly contact her son HIMSELF. She probably is just expressing her pain more than bashing him, I think; and I could understand it. its sad for the boy if true, because he misses Jim. But thats all I get from this.
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Jim isn’t the boy’s father. Where is his father? Shouldn’t he be the one on blast?
A few men may make the effort to stay in touch with an ex-GF’s kid, but not many. That’s why kids don’t belong in your relationship until you BOTH say “Yeah, I think is going somewhere special. Let’s see if the kids like you first.”
And then you do it real casual, like friends, on an outing to the beach or shopping or a restaurant.
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From that stance I could understand why she would be upset, but he has his own mental issues to deal with and he isn’t the father. You’d think she would understand that.
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and if he showed initiative/interest and she didn’t want him to have a relationship with her son, she’d be complaining about how creepy his interest in maintaining that relationship with Evan and/or that Carrey was doing it to get to her. Sorry, she is the child’s mother, if she wants her ex, who has no legal right to maintain a relationship with her minor child, to have a relationship with him, the onus is on her to reach out to Carrey and find a healthy way to make that work if he is interested in doing so.
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Wait. Autistic? I thought her son was “healed”?
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exactly! i was wondering that myself! she “cured” him, right??
jenny is an extremely irresponsible woman. if she found the right solution for her own child’s “autistic symptoms,” that does not mean that is the ‘cure’ or even remotely applicable for the rest of the autism community.
she disgusts me.
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Amen!! That’s exactly what I was thinking. If he’s been “healed” with this magical diet then she can’t go back and say “oh poor autistic Evan is so hurt that Jim hasn’t stayed in contact!” She wants it both ways.
Autism is rampant in our family. It is NOT caused by vaccines (that was totally debunked by actual science) and cannot be CURED by anything, including a diet. To quote my boss, “She’s a douche canoe.”
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I don’t understand why shes telling the whole world about this. She’s putting her son out there, and also making Jim look like a jerk. It would had been nice for him to checking in with him and see how he’s doing once in a while. But really, he doesn’t have to. I also think she’s shot herself in the foot for opening her mouth, because he is going to be really turned off by her, and sadly her little boy will have to pay for it. You have to smart about dating when dealing with kids, because there’s a lot of hearts that can be broken. I also think she goes through men like water, and sadly her son is stuck on her crazy train.
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Using her child and his disability for press. Sad. So, so sad. Jenny McCarthy is pathetic.
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It’s so important to her son, but she can’t make direct contact? But can go public bitching about it? That’s low. Really, really low. Especially when she knows Jim is dealing with his own health issues too.
Whatever worked for her son’s treatment, great, but I found it disturbing that anyone would take medical advice for their children from JENNY MCCARTHY. I mean, come on.
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She is the only one to blame. She did not protect her son and was careless. They were not married . U never bring a child around a man unless he is the father or your husband. She is very ignorant. Maybe she should focus on being a good mom and stop dating everyone. And maybe she should stop trying to stay relevant in the news. It’s very unattractive how desparate she is. Stop being such a slut and stop talking
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She uses Jim for press. It’s really disgusting. And she uses her son for press too. She is really gross. The girl is dying to be famous and will continue to bash Jim to stay relevant. Her poor child got hurt because she put Jim before him. Shame on her for hurting her some.
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+1
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Son I meant !
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From the woman who has been the most visible part of the anti vaccine movement? I’d expect no less. What a class act. ::eye roll::
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It’s ugly for her to make those statements public, it’s ugly of him not to reach out, and her comments on vaccines are beyond stupid. Hope the little boy grows up happy and healthy.
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This is a bit ridiculous. Carrey has no obligation to visit her son. He is not Carrey’s biological son and he was never legally adopted by Carrey. When people break-up it isn’t unusual that all ties are cut including any with their ex’s children which are not their own. If McCarthy really thinks her son is hurting, she needs to contact Carrey directly or have her publicist try to arrange a meeting between Carrey and Evan. Is it seriously worth talking about this to the press? What is her real agenda here? Is she trying to embarrass Carrey?
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How gross and low can she go? She is at fault. Her poor son is going to be so embarrassed of his mommy when he grows up. Jim is probably so glad he got out of that. She is so pathetic . Perhaps she should have thought about her son and his feelings before she allowed them to bond. Jim is not the marrying type so a break up was inevitable. She should have kept her son at a distance. What a dummy
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She needs to learn to shut up. I have a feeling if he had tried to keep any contact with her child she would have been whining that he will not leave them alone! He did what he probably thought was best for himself and the child. I do not care for him but he does not seem like a total jerk. This child shoulder have gotten over it by now but she is the one still hanging on.
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I agree. For Jim, no matter what he did or didn’t do, there was no ‘right’ thing in this situation. Whatever action he took, she would’ve found some fault with.
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One of my friend’s baby nearly died in a whooping cough outbreak, and so people who don’t vaccinate at all I have serious problems with. This woman has serious issues and is a health risk.
She’s doing another playboy spread, so I’m sure this is all about making sure her issue sells well. She is a user. And I’m no Jim Carrey fan, but if she was interested in her son’s well being she could always contact him privately. But as others have said, he has also had health issues recently and a normal human being would be sympathetic to that. Not this shrew through.
I feel sorry for her son and ex-husband (is he still in the picture?)
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This makes Jenny look extremely tacky and classless. Jim doesn’t owe her son anything; he is not the child’s father, step father, anything. I can’t believe she would say this publicly. This makes her look bad, not jim. Especially since she comes right out and says she hasn’t actually told Jim this. What is he, a mind reader? No good jenny.
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Isnt it the mother and fathers responsibly to protect your children from being hurt? Clearly they failed. He’s in therapy? Sounds like she’s not being a good mother. Maybe she should not involve him in her relationships. 5 years or less or more, she wasn’t married . Her son should not have been around them . She messes up and is now trying to blame someone other then herself. I hate mothers who bring their kids around their boyfriends. Can u not wait and do it the proper way? U Jenny hurt your little boy. U failed.
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Jim is not that boy’s father. His FATHER should be spending time with him.
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Where is the dad? If he has a dad btw then Jim has no obligation to do anything. She sure talks a lot of shit on Jim. We sure she did the dumping? I’m pretty sure he did. She sounds like she is still bitter.
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“She sure talks a lot of shit on Jim. We sure she did the dumping? I’m pretty sure he did. She sounds like she is still bitter.”
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I tend to think the relationship did not end on good terms. And admitting that she can not contact Jim directly, implies he does not want to hear from her. And probably for a good reason.
I can not recall Carrey ever saying a bad word about her. But McCarthy has not shut up about him.
And lets be real.
McCarthy has always dated based upon, how it was going to work out for her financially. She is not dating any broke jokers.
And her first husband and the father of Evan…. has a extremely wealthy father. The ex-father in law produced some of the biggest TV shows from the 1950′s through the 1970′s. I suspect his residual checks are HUGE.
And the ex-husband is a working character actor. I see his facing popping up on TV shows.
Now I am curious about if McCarthy even lets him see Evan. Cause I am having to agree with many others here. Evan has a Father. One that lives in LA.
So why is she trying to publicly shame Carrey? Evan has a family.
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Hautie isn’t wrong.
I seem to remember that her ex-husband either co-wrote or produced a movie co-written and starring her and it tanked colossally, both commercially and critically. And it seemed that as soon as the stinker hit the streets, she gave the hubby the gate.
Can’t remember the title, but I remember it making Ebert/Roepper/whichever incarnation’s worst movie list.
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@pwal – I DO remember that. The second that project didn’t do for her “career” what she wanted it to do, she announced they were getting divorced. She rarely mentions her ex-husband and, if I recall correctly, she may have even implied he was a completely uninvolved dad who left her to handle all of her son’s medical issues. If that’s true, my guess is that she decided she knew better than everyone else and she pushed the dad out of the picture
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Well, I guess John Mallory Asher isn’t enough of a name, especially since she’s engaging in the recent method of career come-up:
Hook up with a dude who is established and ridiculously A-List
Attempt to become a brand and piggy-back on his A-List status
Go on Oprah to promote her ‘projects’
Break up
Return to Oprah and begin the ‘I’m just an ordinary girl, just like you’ campaign
Drop dime about what’s it’s really like to be in an A-List couple (yeah, like we didn’t know that HW couples wait a while before they publicly announce their split)
Find a new dude
Become ‘friends’ with hell hound Handler (for some reason, McCarthy was hanging out in the Larry King green room when Handler was a guest)
Spend a lot of time convincing the world that you’re still hot $h*t by posing nearly/completely naked.
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I have hated her since she got on tv to whine about how hard she had to work posing nude,etc. to afford therapy for her son. I have a special needs child and work my a## off as well as my spouse knowing we will never truly ever retire as he will need total care after we die, either at a nursing home or a group home if his cousins can’t. Her stance vs vaccines makes me sick both as a mom and an R.N. Glad to hear her son, despite her, has improved.
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You don’t put someone on blast publicly without first having made every effort to reach them personally.
And while I understand her son’s relationship with Jim, if Jim is so “dark” why would she want him around the boy?
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She’s strikes me as one of those chicks who would suicide-text an ex-bf she dated for 3 months to say she’s overdosed on 4 valium at 3am because life’s not worth living without him. Then he’ll realise how much he loves her or something.
Doesn’t surprise me she’s gone bunnyboiler and is trying to air dirty laundry for attention. She just wants to hear from him again, no matter what the circumstances.
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I can NOT stand this woman. Not sure what it is about her but she always annoyed me to the point I cant watch anything she is on. I think it was so classless and tacky to mention this publicly without actually talking to him first.
I agree with everyone saying he really doesnt have any obligation to maintain contact with him. would be great if he did but she has no right to make him out to be the bad guy b/c he doesnt. she should be grateful for all the money he gave her for his care, most guys would not have done that. I think she’s starting a smear campaign to get more money out of him. She’s not a likable personality so I cant see her career getting any better. she probably wouldnt get any press if she didnt mention JC.
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Hmmm… don’t know what to think.
I think Jim Carrey is a douche; I think Jenny McCarthy is a douche; however, I think Jenny is the bigger douche, not only because of the vaccine-bashing (and the seeming lack of evaluation about whether her implants could’ve impacted her son’s illness) but because she tried to make McCarrey happen, although people gave less than a $h*t.
Plus, in service of becoming McCarrey, she may have ignored whether Jim wanted to be an integral part of her son’s life. But then again, he probably did want to be a part of the boy’s life after the breakup, but McCarthy, being the mom, may have put out a vibe that it’s not cool, especially if the boy really liked Jim and didn’t understand why they broke up.
At any rate, she is responsible for Evan’s heartbreak. Single/divorced parents have to be mindful of who they introduce into their children’s lives.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. She is a piece of work. From her anti-vaccine stance to publicly discussing this while admitting she hasn’t actually called Jim says so much about her. I can’t stand her and really feel she has left a LOT of damage in her wake.
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Love Howard and love his interviews but I thought Jenny was painful to listen to. She was a real jerk about Jim.
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i feel so bad for this child… poor thing is in therapy because he saw a father figure in jim and he still asks if he’ll come by sometime…
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Somehow I kind of doubt that is the reason the child is in therapy (if he even IS in therapy). If he hasn’t truly been ‘healed’ of his autism, maybe he requires therapy to get through any type of rough time or transition. For Jenny to come out and basically blame Jim is a shit thing to do. As a single mother, she has to take responsibility for helping her child get through something like this.
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She is using her son, with special needs, to bash in public her ex, who has mental issue on his own, for not mantaining a contact with her kid.
This is vile.
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First off, let’s be clear. Her son had a clear case of Landau-Kleffner that was misdiagnosed as autism. I had a cousin that had the same thing happen. It wasn’t until she was 7 that they figured out it was LKS aphasia. I have a friend with an asperger’s autistic son and while a gluten free diet does seem to help, he still is autistic and showed signs before he got his vaccinations.
While I know Jim is an adult, you would hope that after having someone like Jim help her with her son she would have been a bit more willing to stand by Jim in his time of need instead of dumping him for “not being fun anymore.” Personalities aside, mental illness already does a number on your self esteem. I’m sure that her dumping him probably took a bad situation and made it worse.
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Love your response. Thank you for making the distinction of her child’s true diagnosis. Jenny has caused a lot of tension within the autism community, and pain for claiming her son is “cured of autism”, while desperate parents try to replicate her treatments to “cure” their children.
My child has autism, will always have autism. I do not for one second believe the MMR vaccine caused her autism. In hindsight, after receiving her diagnosis, we remembered signs in early infancy, before the MMR vaccine.
Her son’s symptoms, such as seizures, gastrointestinal distress, delayed speech, etc, have never been an issue for my child. Many children with autism do have these symptoms, but my point is the treatments she touts as curing autism, such as a gluten-free casein free diet are not going to cure autism. They alleviate symptoms of autism but do not cure the autism itself.
A child’s best bet for progressing is using behavioral interventions, not just diet/environmental modifications.
So while a gluten-free diet/biomedical remedies may help, if a child truly has autism, that alone will not eradicate it.
The professionals in my daughter’s life always applaud me on what a great mom I am, (I definitely don’t feel so) because I focus on “proven” therapies such as occupational therapy, speech therapy, ABA/behavioral interventions, and behavioral psychology. I don’t believe giving her a special enzyme is going to be as effective. My daughter’s pediatrician knows parents who try questionable treatments to cure their kids, and it baffles her.
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@autistic mom: I’m sure you are great to work with as a medical professional. You sound like you are intelligent and rational and have not confused your own ego with your child’s condition. I’m glad the medicos are praising you for your attitude and work with your child. Any condition requires a team approach with family and doctors who respect each other and can work together to get the best outcome for the patient. It sounds like you have a great foundation to get the best for your child.
I read part of the problem with the vaccine theory is that it is given around the time the child would start missing milestones such as starting to speak, interact etc, ie when there are enough signs for a diagnosis. So people assume the vaccine caused it when it is probably just coincidental.
I don’t have children but I know they make eye contact and smile and like to be cuddled long before they start speaking. So I can imagine that most mums would realise something was different from the beginning, or at least in retrospect see the signs were there, like you said.
So what’s your opinion, why do you think the vaccine thing was ever taken seriously? Is it just denial, and the desire for an easy solution, (or any solution)? Or are people spending so little time with their kids that they get the shock of their lives when a doctor says there is something wrong? I’m very interested to hear your take on it, if you don’t mind.
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Late to story but I cannot stand her. She is so misinformed in regards to vaccines it makes me embarrassed for her. So I guess the control of Measles, the Mumps, Chicken Pox and the flu are the results of what exactly?
As far as her son goes…very sad he misses Jim. I feel so hypocritical because I think Halle Berry is a horrible person abandoning her step-daughter but can kind of understand why one would want to pull the strings back when you are not the actual parent because honestly…how would that work. I’m conflicted on this story…..
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Don’t feel bad.
In all honesty, I don’t remember Jim Carrey making as big of a show about his relationship with Evan as Halle did with India. In fact, I don’t remember Jim talking about McCarrey at all, at least, it was never the thesis of his interviews/press junkets.
Plus, Halle was married to India’s father, and I always had the impression that India’s mother wasn’t in the picture-could be wrong about that.
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indias mom died when she was a baby in car crash
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I didn’t know she was dead.
Needless to say, I’m sorry that my tone about India’s mom was so casual.
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Ugh, shut up Jenny and stop using your son’s illness to keep yourself in the spotlight. It was wrong to air that out in public before even discussing with Jim to find out what the reason is and unfair to her son. But I guess, anything to get publicity for your show, huh?
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She can air publicly whatever she wants.
They are both adults.
The only thing that matters here is the child that had some sort of a father figure for 5 years and one day that “father” was gone.
I think you should be heartless to not visit and loose touch with a child you cared for and lived with for so long.
He could have found the time to visit him, and if he doesn’t want to see Jenny or have limited contact with her, that’s fine too.
They can coordinate a playdate when she is not around…
I don’t know how some men just “dump” the children when the relationship with the mother is over.
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I’m sorry, but not only do you assume too much here (maybe, when she broke things off with him, he wanted to see the boy and she didn’t want him around… maybe things ended very badly between them and they both agreed it should be a clean break, etc., etc., etc.), but the suggestion you make just might not be possible in many situations. If it isn’t possible, that doesn’t make the guy a bad guy. Is it better to pop in and out of his life, confusing him further, especially if things ended badly between Jenny and Jim? For all we know, when she broke up with him, maybe he DID want to see the boy, and she wouldn’t allow it.
Seriously, even if they had ended things on the BEST of terms, contact with her son would be awkward (especially once she is with someone else). Possible, yes… but awkward. If things didn’t end well, for Jim to continue to try and see her son might just well have been worse for both the boy and for him.
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Jim responded: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/06/jim-carrey-calls-jenny-mccarthys-comments-about-son-unfortunate/
He called her out in a classy way. I still think it’s not his responsibility to maintain a relationship with her son.
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A step-parent, or someone in that role in all but name such as Jim Carrey, can almost never win, unless they’re saintly, loaded, and generous. Or in those cases when they legally adopted the kid(s) and became a “parent”. Otherwise, it’s a thankless position.
I wonder if Jenny McCarthy would be slamming Jim Carrey for not visiting her son if instead of Jim Carrey the movie star he was Jim Carrey the cab driver. Or Jim Carrey the psychiatric-patient-without-millions-of-dollars.
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Jenny uses that kid for publicity almost nonstop. She always has, and she tries to act like she is being altruistic about it. She is a rotten person, and she didn’t need to publicize what was going on. Her son is ten, not four.
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Any adult who has bonded with a young child while involved with the child’s mother, should know without being told that u cannot just break off all contact without heartbreaking consequences for the child. A child is not going to understand why their former father figure is gone forever. It would be even more difficult for a child who has a disability.
Bipolar or not, it doesn’t say much for Jim who doesn’t have the empathy or time for an occasional visit or phone call. And that goes for all ex-partners who don’t give a damn once the relationship ends, regardless of who ends it. Obviously, I am referring to long term relationships only.
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I disagree are you saying if a mother like Kate Hudson hasmutiple LTR a year or longer LTR.All her exes should mantain contact ? This boy has a dad Jim was a buddy according to her not a father figure.People come and go in kids lives.Should a live in of 5 years nanny also stay in contact they child loves and misses nanny too
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I don’t consider multiple “LTR” in a year (i.e. Kate Hudson) to be a long term relationship. I’m talking about relationships that have become serious, exclusive, live in and have stood the test of time.
I don’t see how a nanny, a paid employee, should be held to the same standards as a partner. Nonetheless, some nannys do keep in touch with their former employees.
I should have qualified my earlier statement by saying that if I had a child I would not introduce him/her to any of my dating partners until it got to the point where we were both ready to make a serious commitment (to be together forever). I think that when a child is involved both people need to know going into the relationship that there is an extra responsibility and that if things don’t work out steps must be taken to cut down on the possible damage to the child. I don’t see how the occasional visit is a big deal.
I don’t agree that Jim was just a buddy. According to Jenny, [Jim] “helped Evan get past some obstacles I couldn’t. He speaks a language Evan understands, and Evan feels safe with him.” That sounds like much more than a “buddy”.
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Ugh.. This is frustrating… I’m not even a Jim Carrey fan, but how do you know that he didn’t try to see her son after the break up?? By all accounts, he treated both her and her son amazingly well when they were together, and SHE broke up with him. Maybe he did want to see the child and she wanted a clean break from him…. until now, when she happens to be seeking publicity and brings this crap story public! Sounds to me like she is trying to jerk Jim around… she wants him to have contact with her son, but can’t manage to maintain some type of contact with him herself???
She’s using her son for publicity (again) and throwing a guy who treated her son really well under the bus for the same reason. S.H.I.T.T.Y.
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Crappy thing all the way around. And I’m with the poster who said: Dont get your kids involved. I’m going to sound old fashioned and get blasted but I’m saying it anyway: If you have a child, you should keep your child away from “dating boyfriends”. And you shouldnt have “live in boyfriends”. Either commit and marry the man….but if the relationship isn’t up to THAT standard, then dont get your kids involved.
Hey I’m 53. Sue me. I dont care. I was a single mom with a 6 year old son. But my son didn’t get involved beyond a simple meeting with any of my boyfriends. My son didn’t get invovled until I met a man that put a ring on it.
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If they had married it probably would’ve ended on divorce anyway. I’m probably somewhere in between. I don’t understand why people feel the need to introduce their child to the latest flavor of the week. But Jim and Jenny were together 5 years. I probably would’ve introduced my kid by then. Hell that’s how long I’ve been married!
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He has no obligation to see the child, the boy is not his. Actually, he wasn’t even a stepfather as he and Jenny were never married.
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She is such a hypocrite – she’s so anti-vaccine, but she’ll go and blab to the media that she uses Botox? That doesn’t make any sense to me.
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Jim Carrey has kids/ a family of his own, and that is probably his main focus. Jim Carrey did not cause her son’s emotional problems, and vaccinations did not cause his autism.
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Good point regarding Jim being a single parent.
Jim Carrey was a single parent while his career was skyrocketing, and usually when the bank account improves, so does the amount of females vying for his attention. He had a nasty divorce from Lauren Holly and his break up with Renee Zellwegger was high profile, and yet, you heard nary a word from Jim or his daughter about how hurt she may have felt when these women left the picture. Maybe the relationships were acrimonious; maybe their relationships with the daughter weren’t the greatest; or maybe it’s a private matter.
McCarthy may have picked the wrong thing to b*tch about, when it comes to Carrey, because he’s been a single parent longer than she has and he had to endure much more, in terms of spotlight glare, versus McCarthy, who seems to thrive on it, even if it’s just residual.
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Out of the three, Evan, Jim and Jenny…I think Jenny has the most mental issues…and if Jim was so important to her son why would she dump said man because he wasn’t “fun” anymore…there were rumors that she broke up with Jim because she kept asking him to get her movie roles and he refused…CAN NOT STAND HER!
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First of all. I agree with the poster that it’s ridiculous she uses Botox but tells people not to vaccinate. I can’t stand her and she is using her son for the publicity. This anti vaccination crap is just dangerous and there are more and more people chose not to. If you go on babycenter and look at their message boards there are SO many people that are choosing not to.
Please tell me she’s donating the money she makes to an autism fund.
Anyway, did it ever occur to her that if she didn’t feel comfortable contacting him then maybe he didn’t feel comfortable contacting her? “hey, I know we broke up and don’t want to be around each other, but can I take your son to chucky cheese for a few hours?”
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I think I can safely say that the entire community of Celebitchy is in agreement on this one. (That almost never happens o.O)
Bad, slimey move, Jenny. Not that any of us liked you to begin with, but now must of us hate you. (I had no idea that she was spouting all that crap about vaccinations. Awful.) Funny how we hear nothing from her for awhile, but when she has projects to promote, she suddenly starts on this emotional ‘family drama’ BS.
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Evan has a father who she claimed on Access Hollywood has joint custody
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Would Stephen Huvane rep Jenny by any chance?
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jenny should stop using her son for attention, stop giving wacko medical advice and go back to doing what she does best: picking her nose while wearing a bikini on MTV.
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Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey were a mismatch from the beginning. Jim is way to real, smart and talented for this phony, sub-intelligent, talent free woman. He also probably figured out her son was never autistic and he was used just as she seems to use and manipulates everyone in her life.
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