Just about every tabloid has some account of the reasons behind the seemingly sudden split of Emo poster couple Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz. There seem to be a lot of leaked stories from both sides, and as Kaiser reported previously US Weekly blamed Ashlee for the split, saying she’s been partying and hanging out with other guys. OK! Magazine, which we also covered, basically claimed that Pete was never around since he was touring with his band and that stressed Ashlee out. Well In Touch, The National Enquirer and Star all have their own takes too and I’ll start with The National Enquirer since their claims are the most explosive. I would guess this first report comes from team Ashlee.
Enquirer: Pete is hooked on pills and booze, has “wandering eye”
Fed up with the rocker’s abuse of prescription drugs, his wandering eye and because she feared for the safety of the couple’s 2 year-old son, the singer-actress filed for divorce on Feb. 9 after less than three years of marriage.Although Ashlee had been pressuring Pete to go to rehab for a while – and had even threatened to leave him – insiders say the troubled musician didn’t take her demands seriously until it was too late.
“Ashlee realized that Pete had become a functioning addict and that he wasn’t making any effort to quit,” revealed an insider.
He’d been taking the sleeping pill Ambien, the sedative Xanax and painkiller Oxycontin, said the source, and Ashlee had concerns about Pete’s behavior around their son Bronx…
“When Pete drinks and takes pills, he goes wild. Ashlee doesn’t trust him to be faithful.”
In Touch: They haven’t had sex since summer, Ashlee gave up, they both partied
“The passion between them had died,” [Ashlee’s] friend says. “They haven’t been intimate since last summer, and were sleeping in separate beds.”Star: It was complicated, they were both attracted to other people
[A] source tells Star that whispers about the nature of Pete’s relationship with Bebe Rexha, the sexy new singer for Black Cards, “definitely helped push Ashlee over the edge. And with Pete and Bebe about to go on tour together, I think it was eating away Ashlee to the point of no return.”Ashlee… found [a shoulder to lean on] in her ex-boyfriend Ray Brady, former guitarist for her band. On Jan. 26… Ashlee posted a new photo to her Twitter account showing her and Ray having a cozy dinner together.
Star: Ashlee broke up with Pete over the phone and he missed Superbowl
Despite the mounting problems in their marriage, friends say that Pete was genuinely blindsided by Ashlee’s decision. And that seem clear on Saturday, Feb. 5, when Pete received a sudden phone call from Ashlee while he wsa partying in Dallas the day before the Superbowl…“He was supposed to stay in town to see the game on Sunday, then return to L.A. the day after. But he suddenly got a phone call about a ‘family emergency’ and ended up rushing out of Dallas that night. He never got to see the game.”
That phone call was Ashlee killing two birds with one stone, a source tells Star. “She broke the news that she was going to divorce him and ruined his big Superbowl weekend at the same time!”
[Print editions, sources quoted in text]
Both The Enquirer and Star have that story about how Ashlee called Pete during his trip to Dallas before the Super Bowl to break the news that she was divorcing him. And by most all accounts Pete was shocked and begged her not to do it. The Enquirer story makes the most sense to me. If Pete was taking all those prescription drugs that would explain why he wasn’t interested in sex at all. Being hooked on pills like that can really change a person and make them irresponsible and unreliable. Meanwhile Ashlee was drinking and partying toward the end because she knew it was over and was blowing off steam. They were too young to get married, and Pete needs to get off the pills. Hopefully little Bronx will be ok throughout this mess.
Pete is shown in the header on 12/31/10. He’s shown with Bronx below on 11/27/10 and with Bronx and Ashlee in October and November of last year. Credit: Fame
They’re both a mess if you believe the tabs…poor Bronx doesn’t stand a chance!
While I found the Halle Berry/Gabriel Aubrey split fascinating, and followed their he said/she said, I could care less about this one. Hopefully there’s a grandma to take care of the kid while Dad’s popping pills and Mom’s out till dawn getting drunk with skaters.
Its always bad for the kids..
i would have dumped him when he drank urine, but that’s just me.
‘Fed up with the rocker’s abuse of prescription drugs, his wandering eye and because she feared for the safety of the couple’s 2 year-old son’
Umm, then why are there so many pics of Pete and son? I think I’ve seen more pictures of him and Bronx than her and Bronx. And if you are worried about your child’s safety with the other parent you don’t go out partying every night . . . .
Enquirer hmmm …bullshit
“because she feared for the safety of the couple’s 2 year-old son”
Ashley don’t pull a Halle here. Are you not seeing where that has landed her?
Tell Daddy Joe stop leaking this kinda shit
Hmmmm. He still strikes me as the more responsible parent here. She definitely seems like she has an eating disorder and a drinking/drug problem.
I love the fact that she was worried about his pill poppin and boozin was going to make him CHEAT! So i guess she wasn’t worried about a boy named BRONX! Hello dumb ass. Worry about your KID! Men come and go, your BLESSED if God lets you have a CHILD. Take care of your KIDS people, they’re the ones that’s overlooked so much.
In the end, what does it matter what happened. They are divorcing and that is that. Hopefully the kid will be taken care of.
Yeah, to be frank, out of the two of them, who looks the most likely to be addicted to pills? It’s not Chia-Pet-Head-Pete. It’s My-Chin-Weighs-More-Than-My-Body Ashlee.
can someone explain why, if it’s warm enough for your wife to wear a tank top and you a t-shirt, you ALSO sport a knit ski cap?!
oh, so you can look like the standard emo fool? thanks, that’s what I thought.
For gods sake, it was a shotgun wedding! Who actually expected they’d stay together?
There’s no way she can maintain such a low body weight and be drinking “all the time” without popping pills to keep her weight down. She doesn’t strike me as the type to have a healthy balanced diet + a daily trainer/gym session. She seems like the type to pop pills and/or have some sort of ED. She always looks unwell, and has the same fey little smile on her face.
I feel bad for their son.
If he’s popping, she’s popping, too. I think she’s just tired of trying to keep him on a leash.
“when he drinks he goes wild”
Bipolars need to avoid alcohol, period. It induces mania.
Why didn’t she go to her homestate to celebrate the game too? He’s short, her leaning over him is annoying and so is a nagging wife. She probably did him a favor.
Let the blame throwing begin! *trumpets sound*
Whole lotta spec going on here about her habits, people. I wouldn’t declare somebody has an ED or a pill habit unless I knew the person very well…
I didn’t expect this to last just due to their immaturity and age, and the way they rushed into everything and banged out a baby too quickly.
Wow! With CB posters it seems the males in the relationship are always judged less harshly than the females whenever a breakup occurs. Pete seems like a child/boy to me. Sometimes he seems like a SWEET boy, yes, but not like a man or father. If nothing else, at least Ashlee is able to ACT like a woman.
@ Alexa I agree!!
Team Ashlee!!! Us women have to stick up for each other!! Show her some love! She may have her problems but I’m sure Pete is no angel. He’s just an out of touch moron if he was blind sided by the divorce. Obviously he was tuned out and just wasn’t paying attention to what Ashlee was probably complaining about.
I hope she does well!!
If nothing else, at least Ashlee is able to ACT like a woman.
And the evidence of this is where? Asslee’s spoiled brat behavior is well documented LONG before she & Pete started sniffing around each other.
They clearly weren’t mature enough to handle the trials & tribulations of an adult relationship. (God, can you imagine what would have happened if they didn’t have tons of money & had to deal with things they way us “normal” folk do?)
“Asslee’s spoiled brat behavior is well documented LONG before she & Pete started sniffing around each other.”
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Exactly.
And it is nice to see Daddy Joe gave the scoop to The Enquirer.
I am tired of reading how they were “too young”.
They were not too young.
And Joe trying to sell this as a unfortunate mistake, made by two young kids, is dumb.
It is not as if they were 18 and no jobs. They both had decent incomes when they married. Both had been living in LA partying like there was no tomorrow.
Ashlee intentionally got pregnant to get this marriage. So it looks to me they were old enough.
But Ashlee has always been a pill. Jealous of the positive attention that was on Jessica for so long.
Now she has her own drama that has got her in the tabloids. She must be thrilled.
But to throw Pete under the bus as a addict is just low. I don’t see him tossing her under one.
Well Ashlee has admitted to struggling with eating disorders during her teen years (I think she was a ballerina?).
I feel like it’s a situation that was doomed from the very beginning. Even if only one of them was struggling with a mental illness (Pete has bipolar disorder, Ashlee has the previous struggle with eating disorder), or if neither of them had a mental illness, they are both seemingly very immature.
*crosses fingers that Bronx will be supported and taken care of during this time*
Alexa: This has nothing to do with gender. I side with the person who is acting like less of an ass, and in the last two celebrity cutody fueds (this one and the Halle/Gabe one) the men just happen to be behaving better.
Do you think the poll addiction explains the terrible hair too?
Two more narcissists who can’t stand the world not revolving around them. Too bad they brought a child into the mix.
“can someone explain why, if it’s warm enough for your wife to wear a tank top and you a t-shirt, you ALSO sport a knit ski cap?!”
It saves time with the flat iron. That shit is time consuming.
They both look scary & unhealthy…Ashlee looks dreadful. Daddy Joe should stop throwing stones at Pete…both of his daughters are so desperate & messed up!
They both look scary & unhealthy…Ashlee looks dreadful. Daddy Joe should stop throwing stones at Pete…both of his daughters are so desperate & messed up!
they both keep getting called young but he was almost 29 when they wed. that seems to be a reasonable age. she was 24 which seems pretty young to me but it’s not crazy young.
their issues seem to go beyond age. i am surprised his being bipolar hasn’t been brought up, especially since accusations of him abusing pills has been mentioned.
Y’know, it’s okay for people to get divorced. Why does someone have to be vilified for it?
Xanax is NOT a sedative. It’s a “benzodiazepine” which is used to treat people with anxiety & panic attacks, NOT to put people under…
Pete Wentz should see what happened to the executive producer of Narnia. This is what happens when you are addicted to drugs. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/02/18/2011-02-18_narnia_producer_dead_in_soho_home.html
Age and immaturity don’t always go hand in hand.
I like Pete’s natural hair. It seems he’s made a total transformation for the better. It will be easier to take him serious as an artist with his new attitude. I guess Ash broke the mold. Getting married because you’re pregnant is stupid. Divorces suck.
This information has papa Simpsons name all over it.