Jim Carrey doesn’t know if he’ll ever find someone to spend the rest of his life with.

The ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ actor – who split from girlfriend of five years Jenny McCarthy in 2010 – admitted after having had to “erase” a number of former flames from his life, he doesn’t know if he will ever commit to another person fully.

He said: “I’ve been erased and I know what it’s like to erase someone. You know the feeling when you loved somebody and it ends and you feel as if they’ve moved on or maybe even none of it ever mattered? It’s a terrible feeling.

“But everything in my life comes to me for a reason, to step me up to another level and to make me learn. Every single relationship has brought me a little bit closer to realising what I want and what I don’t want, and teaching me the value of love.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever actually find somebody I can hang with for the rest of my life.”

The 49-year-old star – who has battled with depression in the past – explained he has on occasions veered into a “bad neighbourhood” in his life.

Jim added to the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “I veer off the road once in a while and take the off-ramp into a bad neighbourhood and live there for a while, but it’s not usually very long.

“Everything starts to go wrong and you can only stay in that mode for a short time if you’re awake and sober and looking at the universe.”