Jim Carrey Apologizes to Family After Posting Photo of Autistic Boy Without Permission
Jul. 3,2020 AT 7:38PM By Joyce Chen
Jim Carrey apologized After using a Photo of an Autistic boy Without the family’s permission. Credit: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic
No hard feelings! Jim Carrey knew it was no laughing matter when a family from Oregon called him out for using a Photo of their Autistic son Without their Permission on Wednesday, July 1.
The actor and comedian took to Twitter the next day to apologize — unintentionally shedding light on a good cause in the process.
Carrey, 53, went on a Twitter rant earlier in the week over California’s new vaccine legislation, which eliminates vaccine exemptions for personal or religious reasons.
He and ex Jenny McCarthy are among a very vocal community of celebrity parents who say that vaccinations could contain mercury or other poisons associated with autism.
“This corporate fascist must be stopped.”
In one tweet, the Truman Show actor included photos of several children, presumed to have been affected by vaccines.
Among them was Alex Echols, whose family was not too happy to see their son’s image used in such a public realm Without their permission.
Alex’s aunt, Elizabeth Welch, also chimed in on social media, adding that though Alex did have autism, he was diagnosed prior to being vaccinated, and actually had a condition known as tuberous sclerosis, or TSC.
Carrey apologized and removed the image Thursday.
“I’d like to apologize to the Echols family and others for Posting a pic of their kids w/o permission,” he wrote. ”I didn’t mean to cause them distress.”
Karen replied positively, and even suggested that maybe the snafu could lead to something good After all.
“We appreciate the apology,” she wrote. “If you feel so inclined, a shout out for tuberous sclerosis awareness would be awesome! #IAMTSC.”
* Had to include this awesome comment from the comments section..
Ginny • 4 hours ago If you’re looking to Jim Carey or Jenny McCarthy for parenting advice rather than, I don’t know, a doctor, then you might need to rethink this parenting thing.