How therapy helped Dave Grohl face life’s toughest moments

Dave Grohl is opening up about how he’s been coping after revealing he fathered a child outside his marriage to Jordyn Blum.

The Foo Fighters frontman announced the birth of his baby girl on social media in September 2024, saying he was doing “everything I can” to regain his wife’s and family’s “trust and earn their forgiveness.”

Now, speaking to The Guardian, the musician explained the approach he’s taken to handle the fallout. “I had to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think,” he 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,” he added.

He also shared how songwriting has helped him handle the scrutiny. “I have to be perfectly honest, writing songs and writing lyrics about these things is sometimes enough,” he said.

The lead singer continued, “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.”

For the unversed, the Everlong rocker and former Nirvana drummer has been married to director Jordyn Blum since 2003.

Meanwhile, they share daughters Violet, Harper, and Ophelia.

Notably, the Foo Fighters are set to release their 12th studio album, Your Favourite Toy, in April 2026.