Dave Grohl has revealed that he “had to turn everything off” after publicly announcing that he had cheated on his wife.
The Foo Fighters frontman stunned fans in September 2024 when he issued a statement on Instagram announcing that he had fathered a child with another woman.
At the time, he pledged to support his baby daughter and do everything he could to regain the trust of his wife Jordyn Blum and their daughters and “earn their forgiveness”.
During an interview with The Guardian published on Friday, Grohl reflected on publicly admitting to infidelity.
“I had to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think,” the 57-year-old said. “Being able to shut off that part of yourself can be sometimes a very healthy exercise in considering life within your immediate radius. Not giving all of that so much currency within yourself that it can completely destroy yourself.”
The former Nirvana drummer revealed during the interview that he has been doing therapy six days a week for 70 weeks. When asked if the scandal prompted him to seek therapy, he replied, “There were so many things that led me to this therapy.”
When pressed about it further, Grohl stated, “I have to be perfectly honest. Writing songs and writing lyrics about these things is sometimes enough. As 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’s an ongoing process.”
The musician later added that he “wasn’t sitting with myself and really letting (feelings) go from my head into my heart,” following the deaths of his bandmate Taylor Hawkins and mother Virginia in 2022.
“Getting to the point where I was just like, I need to stop, turn everything off and find my heart,” he added.
Grohl has been married to Blum since 2003, and they share daughters Violet, 19, Harper, 16, and Ophelia, 11.
When asked if he has managed to win back their trust, he directed the reporter to the lyrics in the band’s upcoming album Your Favorite Toy, noting, “I think they speak volumes. Maybe more than I can speak right now.”
The album will be released on 24 April.
