Pete Wentz Reflects on Ashlee Simpson Divorce: My Life Was Like ‘A Bomb Had Gone Off’
usmagazine.comLooking back. Pete Wentz opened up about struggling with Fall Out Boy’s hiatus and his divorce from Ashlee Simpson.“My life was just like … a bomb had gone off in it,” the bassist, 43, told Nylon in a cover story published on Tuesday, March 21.He recalled his sudden rise to fame after Fall Out Boy’s 2005 album, From Under the Cork Tree, was released. “When we first went on TRL, there were two years where we were super famous, almost like One Direction-level.
You couldn’t go anywhere or do anything,” the musician recalled. “The transition just happens, so there’s not even anything you think about with it, because there is no time.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesStarting in 2009, the rocker took time to be at home with Simpson, who he married in 2008, and their then-toddler, Bronx, and discovered that he needed to make some life changes.
He realized he wasn’t even sure how to navigate the airport on his own.“You’ve atrophied all of these life skills. I was like, ‘Oh.
You have to figure out how to be happy as an adult,’” he explained to Nylon.In February 2011, Simpson filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Wentz has since moved on with model Meagan Camper.
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