Foo Fighters front man and star Dave Grohl has revealed he had “turned everything off” after Jordan Blum admitted fathering a child outside his marriage.
The former Nirvana drummer announced on social media in September 2024 that he had become a father to a baby girl, saying he was “doing everything I can to gain the trust of his wife Jordan Blum and their family and earn their forgiveness.”
Now, speaking in an interview with Guardian, Grohl said: “I had to turn everything off, one of the things was my worry about what other people thought.”
He added, “Being able to turn off that part of yourself can sometimes be a very healthy exercise to consider life within your immediate circle. Don’t let them all have so much currency within you that it completely destroys you.”
Musicians who also played on albums Queens of the Stone Age And them Crooked Vultures, He further said that songwriting was his way of dealing with all the criticism and attention generated by that scandal.
He added, “I have to be completely honest, writing songs and writing songs about these things is sometimes enough.”
The musician continued, “As far as deep, long conversations about them go, I still reserve a lot of that for my personal life, no matter how impersonal and public it may seem.
“But I think for a number of reasons, I reached a place where I needed to stop and sit with myself and reevaluate myself. It’s an ongoing process,” forever Rocker further mentioned.
It is worth mentioning that Foo Fighters are about to release their 12th studio album, your favorite toy, In April 2026.
Meanwhile, Dave Grohl has been married to director Jordan Blum since 2003 and they have daughters: Violet, Harper, and Ophelia.
