{"id":553149,"date":"2026-03-20T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553149\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:20:18","slug":"foo-fighters-dave-grohl-addresses-infidelity-and-social-media-fallout-in-new-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553149\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters\u2019 Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foo Fighters<\/a> frontman Dave Grohl has spoken about his past infidelity, and the social media fallout from his announcement that he\u2019d had a baby with a woman outside of his marriage, in a new interview.<\/p>\n

The singer\/multi-instrumentalist, who\u2019s been married to Jordyn Blum since 2003 and has three daughters with her, announced in September 2024 that he\u2019d fathered another daughter with an unnamed woman and that he was \u201cdoing everything I can\u201d to regain his family\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n

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Now, talking to The Guardian<\/a>, the 57-year-old looks back and admits that he \u201cwound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself and re-evaluate myself\u201d. He admits that he has had 430 therapy sessions over the past 70 weeks and implies that his infidelity is part of the reason why.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to be perfectly honest. Writing songs and writing lyrics about these things is sometimes enough,\u201d he says when pressed on the topic of his affair. \u201cAs far as having a deeper, longer conversation about them, I still do reserve a lot of this for my own personal life, as impersonal and public as it may seem. But I think that for many reasons, I wound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself and re-evaluate myself. It\u2019s an ongoing process.\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds that, after taking to social media to publicly confirm his youngest daughter\u2019s birth, he \u201chad to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to shut off that part of yourself can be sometimes a very healthy exercise in considering life within your immediate radius,\u201d he continues. \u201cNot giving all of that so much currency within yourself that it can completely destroy yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foo Fighters are gearing up to release their 12th album, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24, following years of upheaval both in the band and in Grohl\u2019s personal life. Longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins and Grohl\u2019s mum Virginia died in 2022, which impacted the songwriting on 2023 album But Here We Are<\/a>, and Hawkins\u2019 replacement Josh Freese was fired after one tour in 2024. Freese said he wasn\u2019t given a reason for his dismissal, which Foos bassist Nate Mendel confirms in the Guardian interview.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe made a decision that it was best for all parties,\u201d he says. \u201cTo get into the personal details [with Freese], of why that didn\u2019t necessarily sync up, just didn\u2019t seem like it was going to benefit anybody. Some things are OK to be like, \u2018This is what\u2019s best for us, and we\u2019re going in a different direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following a short run of intimate UK shows earlier this month, the band have a plethora of tour dates in place the following months. They will play a handful of US dates from April to May, then tour Europe from June to July, before touring North America from August to September and hitting Australia in January. See dates and get tickets via the Foo Fighters website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has spoken about his past infidelity, and the social media fallout from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-553149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}