After his wife didn’t show up at her mother’s house as expected, a distraught Tareq Salahi called TMZ to report his wife missing. But turns out she just took a little detour from her reality with rocker Neal Schon, the guitarist from the band Journey, with whom she's reportedly having an "intimate and passionate relationship."

The Washington Post’s Reliable Sources reports that sheriff's officials in Warren County, Va. “talked to Michaele Salahi. She seemed fine. She had left home willingly. And she told them she didn’t want her husband to know where she was."

Of course the blogosphere can't help but wonder: Is this is just another publicity stunt from the infamous White House gate-crashing couple, and why would we think otherwise?

While her husband’s crying “kidnapped!!! and coerced!!!” to anyone who’ll listen; girlfriend’s dancing backstage (you know she is) in Memphis, Tennessee where Journey is on tour.

Journey's reps at Scoop Marketing told TMZ "Nobody kidnapped her and [Michaele and Neal] are in Memphis together."

Apparently the two have a friendship dating back a few years as evidenced by the video below. Check it out.