Pete Wentz: 'I tried to kill myself'

Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz has confessed that he once was so "completely lost and out of control" he tried to take his own life.

The 28-year-old rocker - who's currently dating singer/actress Ashlee Simpson - stunned fans after speaking about his ordeal in an effort to help encourage young people seek out professional help.

He admits that he was left paralyzed by anxiety and depression at the beginning of his career and he felt so lost and alone he wanted to end his life.

In a video for MTV's college channel MTVU, Wentz revealed: "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 and out of control.

"At that point, I'd seen some doctors and they were Hollywood doctors so they gave me a cocktail [of drugs] but I was kind of the drugstore cowboy, so I took the cocktail the way I wanted to take it.

"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 I was, at that point, completely out of my head with Adavan.

"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.

"I came home and we realized that we needed to do more than just keep my head above water.

"It's not really about keeping your head above water, it's about feeling all right and feeling safe in your own skin. It's not about keeping your head above water and barely keep going."