FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl has revealed that he has been attending therapy six days a week since admitting to infidelity in 2024. In a candid interview with The Guardian published Friday, March 20, Grohl, 57, reflected on his ongoing journey of self-reflection and personal growth.
“I’ve been in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks,” Grohl said. “I did the math the other day: over 430 sessions.”
The timeline traces back to September 2024, when Grohl publicly admitted to fathering a child outside of his marriage to Jordyn Blum. At the time, he announced on Instagram that he had welcomed a daughter with someone who was not his wife — later identified as Jennifer Young.
“I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her,” Grohl wrote then. “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 and are parents to three daughters: Violet, 19, Harper, 16, and Ophelia, 11. Reflecting on the scandal, Grohl said the decision to go public with the admission was an important part of his personal reckoning.
“I had to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think,” he explained. “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 also addressed why therapy became such a central part of his life. “There were so many things that led me to this therapy,” Grohl said. “I needed to stop and sit with myself and reevaluate myself” — though he noted that self-reflection was necessary for many reasons beyond the infidelity itself.
While Grohl has often channeled personal experiences into his music, he admitted that some aspects of his life remain deeply private.
“I have to be perfectly honest. Writing songs and writing lyrics about these things is sometimes enough,” he said. “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 the meantime, FOO FIGHTERS are set to release their next studio album, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24. The band recently shared the album’s latest single, “Caught In The Echo,” giving fans a first taste of what’s to come.
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