Where is Jim Carrey now? Fans feared he had died after the actor became a recluse after wrongful death lawsuit
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Jim Carrey has avoided the limelight and become an apparent recluse in recent years.
Shutting himself away in his home studio and emerging only to film a Netflix special, the comedian has been battling a series of lawsuits.
Fans of the Ace Ventura star have taken to Twitter to ask if their comedy hero is dead and are begging for their comedy hero's return to the big screen.
The comedian has now been cleared over claims he may have contributed to his ex girlfriend Cathriona White's suicide after a judge sensationally dismissed a wrongful death suit.
So this is what Carrey has been up to in recent years and what he's doing next...
Man on the Moon
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Carrey's most recent work was a Netflix documentary that explored how his life - and mind - unravelled when filming the 1999 movie Man on the Moon.
The biopic of comedic great Andy Kaufman swallowed Carrey's life whole as he pushed method acting to the extreme.
Carrey allowed makers of the Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond access to previously unseen footage of himself on and off the set.
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Embodying the troubled comic, Carrey was confrontational and impossible to work with as he refused to get out of character while working on the film.
Towards the end of the documentary, a reflective Carrey seemed resigned to the nature of his meteoric rise to fame and how it changed his life forever.
Actor turned artist
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Carrey has spent the last six years painting in his home studio after getting the unstoppable urge to make art.
After filling his home with the bright works, he held his first solo exhibition in Las Vegas last year.
The exhibition was called 'Sunshower' and would-be collectors and fans looking to attend the opening had to commit to buying an artwork up front.
"$10,000 per couple - that’s for two people to attend. Entire amount applied toward Jim Carrey artwork of your choice,” the gallery’s website advertised.
That price also included "cocktails, hors-d’oeuvres, desserts, and live entertainment" - and the chance to meet the Hollywood star in person.
"There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not covered in paint or something from doing sculptures," he told W magazine last year.
"It’s all about that for me now - being completely involved, heart, mind, and soul.
"Sometimes it’s art, sometimes it’s performance, and sometimes it’s just talking to someone."
“Making art in general is not really a choice,” he said. “I’m being painted and I’m being expressed and I’m being created, and there’s little me involved.”
The novellist
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Also in the works is a novel Carrey is writing - set to come out early this year.
"It's going to be very special. I don't want to drill down on exactly what it is, but I can tell you that it's a completely original idea," he said.
"And it's a literary piece; it's not pulp. I'm writing with a wonderful writer friend named Dana Vachon.
"We've been working on it for several years, and we're like an old married couple that talk to each other at least twice a day.
I'm super excited about what's going to happen with that; it's not going to be like anything anybody's ever seen. I think we'll probably be publishing it sometime at the turn of the year or end of this year."