Actor Jim Carrey said he was "shocked and deeply saddened" on Tuesday by the apparent suicide of a former girlfriend.
Los Angeles deputy chief coroner Ed Winter said Cathriona White, 30, an Irish-born make-up artist who was pictured out with Carrey in the past several months, was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment on Monday night.
Carrey said in a statement, "She was a truly kind and delicate Irish flower, too sensitive for this soil, to whom loving and being loved was all that sparkled." He also called White "my sweet Cathriona," and added, "We have all been hit with a lightning bolt."
Winter said a drug overdose was suspected because several pills were found near her body. Winter said the death was called into authorities as a suicide but a final determination has yet to be made.
