Jenny McCarthy says Jim Carrey will not visit her son

Jun, 06, 2012 | AUTHOR: Darren O; | Related : Howard Stern, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey

Jenny McCarthy has been making the publicity rounds as the new host of NBC’s adventure dating reality show Love in the Wild. On Monday she visited Howard Stern at his original job as a shock jock and revealed some sad details about the current status of her relationship with ex Jim Carrey.

Jenny has a 10-year-old son, Evan, who suffers from autism. The outspoken self-described autism activist revealed to Stern that Evan often tells her that he misses Carrey but that the actor has been unwilling to visit him since their break up in 2010:

“I’ve tried to ask Jim numerous times to see Evan, because my son still asks. I haven’t reached out directly . . . I think that sometimes people need to take a real break from each other. 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.”

Jim has spoken publicly about a life long battle with depression. McCarthy added:

“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.”

During the interview Jenny also confirmed that she is dating Chicago Bears future Hall of Fame LB, Brian Urlacher.

Thanks to our friends at VH1 Celebrity for the scoop.

Photo: Carrie Devorah / WENN

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Amanda

You don’t “suffer” from autism.
- Christina
  
  Way to pick out one word and leave a negative comment. Do you have autism? Does someone close to you have it? Some DO “suffer”
- mickey
  
  Wow you know nothing tw*t! My cousin DOES suffer from autism as does my husband’s cousin. And it can be a struggle. They both have to attend “special” classes and deal with being made fun of on a DAILY BASIS. So the “struggle” is not just with the disease, it’s also with the ignoramous’ that always have something to say.
Blahblahblah

I don’t like it when people become “activists” for anything only when it finally directly affects them. Kind of like the people who all of a sudden care about breast cancer and buy all the pink merchandise they can find, when they or a family member is diagnosed. It comes across as insincere.
- notreally
  
  I can’t agree with this. I think those who have been touched directly are MORE sincere because they see the behind the scenes of the disease. They deal with the day in and day out and the aftermath of the treatments. They see the actual suffering. I think it is FAR less sincere for those who just throw money at an issue who know nothing about it and just want to claim they are generous or write it off on their taxes.
- Caitlin
  
  I agree that with your idea. It is insincere to not care about a cause until it directly affects you.
  
  I have always maintained the idea that until a cause directly affects you; a person will not care because they don’t have to think about it. I think that the same applies to shelters around the holidays. I don’t think I know one person who regularly volunteers…. until Thanksgiving or Christmas. Then you have to get on a waiting list to do so. Its ridiculous, but human beings by nature are selfish.
toughcall

I don’t know. Part of me thinks that Jim is doing the right thing by not confusing the boy and that Jenny is being selfish by not explaining the truth to her boy. Jim isn’t his father. Jenny brought him into their lives without a guarantee that he would be there forever and he wasn’t. Trying to have Jim come around a broken relationship to play daddy occasionally isn’t the solution.
Nona

They’re not together anymore. He’s not Jim’s kid. He has no obligation to see him. I understand it’s hard on kids when they get attached, but maybe that should have been something thought about ahead of time. To come out now trying to make Jim look wrong is just in bad taste.
Gwyn

Unless you plan in marrying the guy, I don’t think you should introduce your children. And even then, you shouldnt let them become like father and son, until youve signed some papers! People are always going on about how the divorce rate is so high, well, so is the BREAK UP rate. You have a 50% chance of making it, as a married couple. You have far less than a 40% chance as an unmarried couple.
people need to stop trying to blend families BEFORE theyre families.