Here’s the domino effect: Gerard Way witnessed 9/11 while in NYC He created My Chemical Romance (which became his therapy for the PTSD of witnessing 9/11) Stephanie Meyer used MCR’s music to inspire her as she wrote her books that became Twilight E. L. James wrote a Twilight fanfic and got it published as the book we all know 50 Shades of Grey Let’s start at the beginning. Gerard Way, singer for My Chemical Romance, was indeed in New York City, working as an intern, on Sept. 11, 2001. In a 2005 interview with Spin Magazine, he described how the day of the tragedy, while coming into Manhattan, he had an epiphany of sorts: