In the meantime, Chloe stars in and executive produces the podcast Excessive—available March 23 on Audible—in which she plays Paula, a woman who travels to Las Vegas and becomes obsessed with a man named Victor, played by Joshua Jackson. After Victor ghosts Paula, she responds by sending him thousands of unrequited text messages.

And as the Babylon actress revealed, the project is based on a real story that she became obsessed with.

“Five years ago, there was this woman who went viral for sending 65,000 texts to this guy,” Chloe explained. “She met a psychic and was arrested for sending 65,000 texts. I ordered a jail suit and a wig and tried to recreate it for Instagram. I always thought about her.”

When her friend Dan Robert coincidentally wrote a pilot about the same woman during the thick of the pandemic, Chloe knew they had to collaborate on something together. Thus, the podcast was born.

During that hiatus, Pete was able to focus solely on raising his and Ashlee’s son Bronx, now 14.

“Here’s what it really was: At 31, we’d had all these great years as a band, and then we took time off, and I basically became Mr. Mom,” he said on The Howard Stern Show in 2015. “I had the beard, the flannel shirt. I didn’t know what my identity was. That factored in. When your identity is what you do, it’s hard when you stop doing it.”

But amid his divorce from the “Pieces of Me” singer and the band’s hiatus, Pete confessed he fell into a cycle of depression.

“I think it was a combination of all these factors at once, including being too young,” he told host Howard Stern. “And we were doing this all in the public eye, which as you know, it doesn’t help, because you have people scrutinizing everything you do.”

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“Let’s raise our glasses high, this one’s for you tonight”… but, seriously, there are plenty of reasons to cheers because Vanderpump Rules is back in top form with next-level drama. We are in a new era with a consolidated cast, but knowing this crew, there will be no shortage of drama. We don’t know what to expect from the rest of the season, with new drama rolling out in real time, but we couldn’t be more excited to watch Scheana Shay, Tom Schwartz, James Kennedy, Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval, Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, Raquel Leviss, Charli Burnett, Ally Lewber, and Lisa Vanderpump on our screens.

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