Pete Wentz Shocker: I Tried to Kill Myself

Fall Out Boy bassist (and Ashlee Simpson beau) Pete Wentz has revealed that he once was so "completely lost and out of control" he tried to take his own life.

Wentz, 28, says he had seen several doctors who gave him prescription drugs but things worsened around the time his band had finished recording their major label record a few years ago.

"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," Wentz says in a video for MTV's college channel MTVU.

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