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

(#9) He Once Sang A Cover Of Radiohead's 'Creep' To A Surprised Crowd

In 2011 Carrey and then-girlfriend Jenny McCarthy broke it off and he appeared to be in a rut with work. Eventually, he popped up in New York City fronting a not-so great cover band. They performed songs like Radiohead's "Creep" and Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet With Butterfly Wings."
It was an odd endeavor into the musical world, which many of his fans were surprised by. Especially since Carrey introduced "Creep" as his new theme song.
(#1) He Posted An Uncomfortable Video For Emma Stone

In August 2011, Carrey caught some flak for publicly sharing what sounded like a love letter to Emma Stone. In the video he says he wants to marry her and have her "chubby little freckle-faced kids." At the time, Stone was 23.
Stone responded that she wasn't sure whether to be "flattered or [to] seek an order of protection." Carrey alleges the video was just a joke, another one of his characters.
(#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.
(#2) He's Made Controversial Statements About Vaccines

After dating Jenny McCarthy, Carrey started posting tweets that claimed, "They say mercury in fish is dangerous but forcing all of our children to be injected with mercury in thimerosol [sic] is no risk. Make sense?" And, "I am not anti-vaccine. I am anti-thimerosal, anti-mercury. They have taken some of the mercury-laden thimerosal out of vaccines. NOT ALL!"
Most vaccines don't have mercury in them anymore, and even the ones that do contain a form of mercury contain something called ethylmercury, which is a compound that naturally degrades, ensuring that there's no buildup in your body. Ehtylmercury isn't the same thing as methylmercury, which you find in fish and can make you sick if you put too much of it in your body.
(#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."
(#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.