Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl started regular therapy sessions after admitting to infidelity in 2024.
“I’ve been in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks,”Grohl, 57, said in an interview with The Guardian published on Friday, March 20. “I did the math the other day: over 430 sessions.”
The timeline leads right back to September 2024, when the singer publicly admitted to fathering a child outside of his marriage to Jordyn Blum.
“There were so many things that led me to this therapy,” he said. Elsewhere in the interview, Grohl appeared to address the scandal, admitting that he “needed to stop and sit with myself and reevaluate myself” — but noted that self-reflection was necessary for “many reasons” other than just stepping outside of his marriage.
“I have to be perfectly honest. Writing songs and writing lyrics about these things is sometimes enough,” Grohl explained. “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.”
In September 2024, Grohl took to Instagram and announced that he welcomed a daughter with someone that was not his wife. (The woman was later identified as Jennifer Young.)
“I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her,” Grohl wrote at the time. “I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness.”
Grohl and Blum have been married since 2003. They are parents of three daughters: Violet, 19, Harper, 16, and Ophelia, 11.
During Friday’s interview with The Guardian, Grohl looked back on his decision to admit his infidelity in such a public manner.
“I had to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think,” the musician 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.”
Grohl went on to say that he’s been “overly ambitious” with certain aspects of his career. While he achieved several goals to feel something, it didn’t work.
“It feels good for 24 f***ing hours, and that feeling immediately goes away,” he said. “And there’s that hole again, there’s that emptiness, and you’re like, ‘S***, I need to fill it up with something else.’”
This is not, however, why he cheated on Blum.
“I think that’s how I ended up overextending myself and getting lost. I wasn’t sitting with myself and really letting [feelings] go from my head into my heart,” he said. “Getting to the point where I was just like, ‘I need to stop, turn everything off and find my heart.’”
