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Pete Wentz's suicide confession
Mar 20, 2008, 13:35 GMT
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Pete Wentz has revealed he once tried to commit suicide.
The Fall Out Boy rocker - who is dating Ashlee Simpson - was so out of control he attempted to take his own life in a car park.
Wentz - who was on prescribed medication at the time - said: "I was 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 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."
Wentz - who is helping to promote Jed Foundation's Half Of Us campaign, which is aimed at cutting student suicide rates - says he decided to speak out about his past to encourage young people to seek professional help.
He added to MTV's college channel MTVU: "It's not really about keeping your head above water, it's about feeling all right and feeling safe in your own skin."
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