Pete Wentz Pops Pills To Avoid Crowd Discomfort 9/16/08

Fall Out Boy star Pete Wentz suffers from such anxiety whenever he's in public places, he has to pop Xanax pills to avoid freaking out.

The newly-married rocker admits to using the anti-anxiety medication to help him sleep and cope in airports and at concerts when he's recognized.

He tells Playboy magazine, "(I'm anxious) anytime attention is on me but I'm not in control of the situation. If I'm at someone else's concert, that freaks me out really bad.

"If I have to meet a group of people, if I'm at a party, if I'm at an airport."

And Wentz insists his longterm dependence on manic imbalance medication, which helps him control attention deficit disorder, depression and anxiety, means he has to pop a lot of pills: You wouldn't want to know what my Xanax tolerance is. It's very, very high."