Dave Grohl ‘Had to Turn Everything Off’ After Admitting to Affair and Says He’s Done ‘Over 430’ Therapy Sessions Since<\/p>\n
Grohl revealed in a September 2024 social media post that he fathered a child outside of his marriage to wife Jordyn Blum<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Foo Fighters\u00a0rocker, 57, made the admission in a social media post shared in September 2024. He opened up about his life now in an interview with\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>on Friday, March 20 as his band prepares to release a new album<\/p>\n Grohl (who married Blum in 2003) told the outlet he\u2019s \u201cbeen in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks,\u201d adding, \u201cI did the math the other day: over 430 sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n He opted not to reveal whether admitting to having an affair was the main reason for seeking help. \u201cThere were so many things that led me to this therapy,\u201d he said. (Grohl\u00a0lost his mother,\u00a0Virginia, in August 2022, five months after the\u00a0death of Foo Fighters band mate Taylor Hawkins\u00a0while the band was playing in Colombia in March 2022.)<\/p>\n \u201cI have to be perfectly honest. Writing songs and writing lyrics about these things is sometimes enough,\u201d explained Grohl, referencing Your Favorite Toy.<\/p>\n \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,\u201d he said. \u201cBut 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 Grohl did open up on how he dealt with opening up about the affair on social media. \u201cI had to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dave Grohl ‘Had to Turn Everything Off’ After Admitting to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9,35,43],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dave-grohl","tag-foo-fighters-news","tag-jordyn-blum","tag-violet-maye"],"yoast_head":"\n