Random Facts About Jim Carrey Most People Don't Know (9 items)

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  (#5) He Publicly Shamed Tiger Woods's Ex-Wife After Their Split

  When the news broke that golf star Tiger Woods cheated on his wife, Elin Nordegren, Carrey shared his opinion of the situation on Twitter.

  He wrote, "No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity. Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/lifestyle..."
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  (#6) He Shared Some Uncomfortable Stories About His Childhood

  Carrey's always been into art, but before he could discover his passion for comedy, he was creating realistic drawings of his father. Carrey told Rolling Stone:

  I did pencil sketches and stuff like that. My parents would come into the room and ask, 'What are you drawing?' It would be my dad looking at his watch with a gun in his hand. 'It's a portrait of you,' I said. 'It's called Waiting to Die.'
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  (#7) He Had Nightmares About Killing His Mother

  The biggest takeaway from Carrey's 1995 interview with Rolling Stone is that he's a people pleaser who takes on too much work. He admitted that after his first big break on the NBC sitcom Duck Factory, Carrey moved his family down from Canada to live with him, which seems like it was a disaster from the start. When things got tough, Carrey decided that he didn't want them to live with him anymore, and said he was thinking about ending his mom:

  I ran out of patience, and I had to move them back to Canada. I was having bad dreams – I was strangling my mother in my sleep. I still supported them until I ran out of money. I went bankrupt.
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  (#8) His Public Relationships Often End Poorly 

  In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1995, Carrey's ex-wife, her lawyer, his then-girlfriend, and even Carrey himself speculated about why he can't keep a relationship straight. His ex-wife Melissa Womer recalls telling Carrey that even though he was a star, "[you] must come home and put your feet back on the ground and take your garbage out like everyone else, or I can't be married to you.' And basically, he called my bluff."

  To which Carrey said, "She's lucky to be out of my life. I'm in a different time zone at this point. I was headed there when we were together, so it's OK. Everything is fine. This is the way it's supposed to be."
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  (#3) He Got Into A Graffiti War With The Police

  In 2011, Carrey found himself enmeshed in a vandalism situation with the NYPD because he was spray painting the outside of his West Village art studio with something he called "Baba." Baba is a "mischievous deity... [who] exists in negative space."

  The police covered up the first painting, but then Carrey made a second version of the Baba artwork that came with the message: "This graffiti reapply pursuant to... [drawing of Baba]... Ordinance FFC.”
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  (#4) He Stuffed His Pockets With Cheese While Filming 'Man on the Moon'

  It's not uncommon for actors to go method for their roles. Carrey himself is known for adapting his characters into his public persona, blurring the line between fact and fiction. 

  While filming 1999's Man on the Moon, Carrey reportedly stuffed his pockets with Limburger cheese. Costar Paul Giamatti recalled:

  He'd constantly be hugging people, and he had it all over his hands and stuff. It was disgusting. He was touching people and making them shake his hands all the time. He smelled horrible.

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