Pete Wentz Attempted Suicide!!

Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy bassist and boyfriend to Ashlee Simpson, admitted recently that he once attempted suicide. The attempt happened a couple of years ago, before Pete and Ashlee hooked up.Describing the time that he tried to kill himself, Pete 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 Ativan in a Best Buy parking lot.“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.”

Since then, Pete has made it a point to help those considering suicide. He is a part of the Half Of Us suicide prevention campaign organized by the Jed Foundation. Other celebrities who participate in this campaign include Mary J. Blige and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins.Pete and Ashlee began dating around September 2006, and it looks like Pete has found happiness. In February 2008, Pete gave Ashlee a promise ring that she’s been wearing on that all-important finger ever since.