Dave Grohl has finally answered some questions about fathering a child outside his marriage in 2024.
Grohl spoke with The Guardian to promote the new Foo Fighters album Your Favorite Toy and he told their reporter that he’d been in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks. The reporter said the sessions must have started shortly after the admission of infidelity and wondered if that was the reason to do. Grohl repiled, “There were so many things that led me to this therapy.”
And when Grohl was pressed further about the scandal, and he cut the reporter off by saying, “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.”
When asked how it felt to go on social media and make a public admission about his affair, Grohl said, “I had to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think. 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.”
Elsewhere Grohl admitted, “There is such a thing as addiction to achievement, and it’s dangerous. You’ll set a goal for yourself and you put everything you have into it; the world disappears. Then you achieve that finish line, and it feels good for 24 fucking hours, and that feeling immediately goes away. And there’s that hole again, there’s that emptiness, and you’re like, [crap], I need to fill it up with something else.”
The reporter asked Grohl if that how he ended up cheating on his wife. Grohl laughed, “No. 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. Getting to the point where I was just like, I need to stop, turn everything off and find my heart.”
Bassist Nate Mendel added that he noticed a change in Grohl since the infidelity revelation. He said, “He’s putting the aspirations for the band in a different place, ambition-wise. There’s other things that have more prominence: life outside of music.”
