Fall Out Boy star: 'I tried to kill myself'

Fall Out Boy star Pete Wentz has revealed that he once attempted to commit suicide.

Wentz said he felt so lost and depressed at the start of his career that he took an overdose of prescription drugs in a store car park.

He opened up about his mental anguish as part of the Jed Foundation's Half Of Us campaign, which aims to cut suicide rates among students.

Wentz, Mary J. Blige and Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan have detailed their battles with depression in a series of videos for MTV's college channel MTVU.

Wentz said: "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 prescription 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 [prescription drug] Adavan in a Best Buy parking lot."

The 28-year-old then called his manager, after which his mum arrived to take him to hospital.

Wentz, who is currently dating singer Ashlee Simpson, added: "I came home and we realised 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 alright and feeling safe in your own skin. It's not about keeping your head above water and barely keeping going."