Final Thoughts
I understand how this can be hard to accept, I also used to look up to Pete wentz and it was pretty soul crushing to learn about all this. I just want to bring attention to this because I think it makes me sad how many teenage girls and young women still idolize him and see themselves in him to this day, and how violently they react when you criticize him. I am not saying you can’t still appreciate his art, think he’s funny or good looking or whatever, or that you should stop listening to fall out boy. I love fall out boy, I still listen to their music because it’s great. But the majority of celebrities are awful people and they don’t deserve to be treated like innocent angels or heroes just because they are good looking men who’ve experienced mental health problems that 90% of people have also gone through.
Pete is a successful, popular millionaire surrounded by friends who probably know about this and don’t care, just like they didn’t care to intervene and protect jeanae back then.
The 2000s scene was an unsafe and awful place for young girls and women in general and as much as things have improved, they’re far from perfect. I want young girls to be safe and not treat older men like gods and not see everyone around them doing the same thing and defending them from the consequences of their own actions. If I can do anything at all to help change people’s attitudes about this then I will.
Do not try to track down jeanae or contact her for any reason. It disgusts me how people to this day refer to her as pete’s crazy ex who put him through hell and somehow manipulated him. Yes, she was obsessive and behaved erratically, and yes, she cheated on him. But she was a young, mentally unstable teenager when they started dating, and he was terrible to her too, constantly cheating on her, yelling at her and becoming violent when they fought. Again, she was a teenager and young adult during that relationship, while he was 25-28. I don’t blame her for anything she did during it.