Pete Wentz's Attempted Suicide Confession

On MTV's college channel MTVU, Pete Wentz talks about taking "...a bunch of Ativan in a Best Buy parking lot.." to help encourage young people seek out professional help during Jed Foundation's Half Of Us campaign. The campaign is aimed at cutting student suicide rates.


Chris Polk / WireImage.com

"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 on MTV's college channel MTVU video interview.

"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 owns a record label - Decaydance, co-owns downtown NYC bar - Angels & Kings, designed his own line of jeans for DKNY and operates a clothing store - Clandestine - at 952 West Newport in Chicago.