Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz recently admitted that he once tried to take his own life.
The rock musician (and Ashlee Simpson’s boyfriend) confessed on popular music channel MTV as part of a movement to create awareness to kids suffering depression.
He discloses that he felt comatose by anxiety as soon as his band first made it mainstream, and the nervous tension and depression drove him to attempt suicide.
In the dialogue Pete admits, “I got in my car. I remember I was listening to Jeff Buckley doing Leonard Cohen’s (song) Hallelujah and sat there and took a bunch of (prescription drug) Adavan in a Best Buy (store) parking lot.â€
“And I called up my manager because I was, at that point, completely out of my head with Adavan. And I was talking to him and I was slurring my words, so he called my mom and my mom called me and she came and got me and we went to the hospital.“
Subsequent to his suicide efforts, Pete says he recognized he wanted to do more to “keep his head above water” and he recommends people especially young ones burdened with depression to ask for aid if they require it.
