Pete Wentz reveals suicide attempt

Pete Wentz has revealed he tried to kill himself when his band Fall Out Boy first hit the big time.

He told MTVU recently that he was on prescription drugs for anxiety and depression while the band worked on ‘From Under the Cork Tree’, their first album on a major label, but he was still “completely lost and out of control”: “I got in my car. I remember I was listening to Jeff Buckley doing Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ and sat there and took a bunch of [anxiety drug] Ativan in a Best Buy parking lot.”

“And I called up my manager because I was, at that point, completely out of my head with Ativan. 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.”

Pete has previously spoken about the secretive nature of his depression but as part of his work for the channel’s Half of Us campaign, decided to talk about his suicide attempt to help encourage other people to get help when they need it: “It’s not really about keeping your head above water, it’s about feeling all right and feeling safe in your own skin. It’s not about keeping your head above water and barely keep going.”