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As he told CBS, his mother was “sick and sad.”

He said, “I wanted to make her feel better.

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I’d bounce off the walls and throw myself down the stairs to make her feel better.”

Carrey also admitted that he harbored anger at the world for the position his family was in.

As he explained, “We were experiencing poverty at that point.

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We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors.

And I just got angry.”

In addition to supporting himself, he had his parents and his siblings to think about.

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He eventually moved on to working clubs in Los Angeles.

All this changed when Jim Carrey met comedian Rodney Dangerfield.

As he writes, joining the tour was a massive turning point.

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While speaking toBlackTree TV,Carrey elaborated on the personal impact of the experience.

As he put it, “It was the thing, basically.

There was a lot of work that went into that, but that was the doorway.”

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Until then, it was marching bands and whatever, right?

It definitely pushed it to another level."

As he said, “Yeah, some of the reviews were pretty brutal.

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As such, he turned around and made a reasonable purchase: his first home.

In 2000, he paid nearly $2 million for the lot next door.

In the years that have followed, Carrey has bought and sold several properties.

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He most notably offloaded his Malibu beach home for $13.4 million in 2013.

His 1995 divorce didn’t set him back too much financially

Jim Carrey has been married twice.

As Celebrity Net Worth has shared, this was one of the 30 largest checks in cinematic history.

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White’s mother, Bridget Sweetman, was also a party on the suit filed by Mark Burton.

The pair claimed that Carrey was responsible for giving White the drugs that ultimately ended her life.

The suit was eventually dismissed, but not before Carrey filed his own countersuit against the pair.

Jim Carrey attending an event

Jim Carrey attending an event