Jim Carrey opens up on Hollywood and childhood

“I didn’t know why I was doing it initially and, as usual, a year or two later, I wake up and realize that I’ve been given a spiritual answer through it,” he commented. “I’ve been on the journey of identity, of who am I, and that’s it. That’s the question. If there’s an ‘it’ in this world, it’s ‘Who am I?’ There is no ‘I,’ and yet it has a shape. See what I mean?”

ON ROUGH CHILDHOOD

Carrey also talked about his painful past, revealing that his mother battled addiction for most of his childhood.

“My mom was addicted to pain medication. She was very sick in a lot of ways. She was lovely, too, but she was a child of alcoholics and she had issues. And that’s not intentional abandonment – she was always there for me, she was always there in the house – but if you’re high on painkillers, that’s abandonment. I guess we’re all abandoned to a certain extent, all of us in some way or another by something or someone, and that forms in us our belief about ourselves,” the actor added.

As a result, he says he started running with a tough crowd, his grades suffered and he began to”blame the world” for his family’s issues. But things started to look up when his out of work father, mother and three siblings packed up and hit the road in a VW van.

“We lived in campgrounds or we lived on my sister’s lawn way out in the country and, sure, it got cold in the tent, but in a weird way it was a much happier time,” the Bruce Almighty star said.

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Jim Carrey opens up on Hollywood and childhood

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