10:01 pm - 06/05/2012
Jenny McCarthy: "Jim Carrey is ignoring my autistic son!"
Jenny McCarthy couldn't help but get emotional during her Howard Stern interview when the host asked after her ex, Jim Carrey.
McCarthy, who dated the 50-year-old comedian for more than five years, says Carrey 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," McCarthy, 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, "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.
"As you get older, Howard, you kind of get to see things more clearly," McCarthy explained about moving on. "Hopefully you get happier [over time], and I am so much happier."
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McCarthy, who dated the 50-year-old comedian for more than five years, says Carrey 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," McCarthy, 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, "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.
"As you get older, Howard, you kind of get to see things more clearly," McCarthy explained about moving on. "Hopefully you get happier [over time], and I am so much happier."
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Damn. I'm impressed by your response.
I mean, I can understand finding it frustrating or being confused for a second, but I think to try to shame someone is petty and shallow. Keep a balanced perspective. English isn't everyone's first language (not mine, though it is my primary language). Not everyone had the benefit of the best education or was well suited to their learning environment or upbringing. Some people are better at math, science and/or art than language. Some people are better at oral communication. You don't know someone's circumstance. Literacy is a privilege (unfortunately), not a given. Don't take it for granted. Yeah, it would be great if everyone was perfectly literate and infallible but fuck, I'm not. I am especially lax in casual instances like ONTD, facebook, g chat, texting etc. If I felt pressured to be stricter about my spelling and grammar on here, I probably wouldn't post and I think that just shuts down dialogue. What good is that? It’s one thing to correct someone in a helpful way but this was just lame. It also stinks of snob, and that is not the look (or the smell).
Language is an art not a science. There aren't any absolute rules. It may not be effective if I use the 'wrong' spelling or word, but technically, I can spell ‘the’ 'x-y-z' and it isn't wrong. And English is one of the most complex and least consistent languages, so I think as long as your point is clear (especially in casual text), who cares?