Pete Wentz. Photo Credit: Sawf News/TV GrabMarch 20, 2008 (Sawf News) - Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz has revealed he once tried to kill himself after suffering from depression.
The Emo rocker admitted his desperate cry for help in a video interview for the Jed Foundation's Half Of Us campaign, aimed at cutting student suicide rates.
Pete admitted to being depressed in his high school and early college days with the pressure of pursuing academics and music at the same time. He never expected his depression would grow with the huge success of his band Fall Out Boy...and lead him to attempt suicide.
During the interview, Wentz says: "the darkest moment was when we had just finished recording our major label record and two days later we were going to go to Europe and I felt completely lost.'
Wentz then visited some doctors, who prescribed him 'Adavan', and a number of other drugs designed for combating depression and anxiety attacks, which he took all in one go.
He said: "At that point, I'd seen some doctors and they were Hollywood doctors so they gave me a cocktail (of prescription) but I was kind of the drugstore cowboy, so I took the cocktail the way I wanted to take it."
Wentz recalls the day he swallowed the cocktail, in an electronics store car park. He said:
"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 Adavan in a Best Buy parking lot."
"And I called up my manager because at that point I was completely out of my head with Adavan 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 and then I came home and we realized that we needed to do more than just keep your head above the water…"
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