As frontman of the legendary rock band Foo Fighters — David Grohl has been caught in the eye of the storm plenty of times, with his personal life often overshadowing his art.
Dave Grohl’s descent from being ‘the nicest guy in rock’ to being ‘guy who cheats on his wife and fathers babies outside of his marriage’ was swift.
As frontman of the legendary rock band Foo Fighters — Grohl has been caught in the eye of the storm plenty of times. With the band having just announced the dates for the UK and European leg of their 2026 Take Cover Tour, now’s as good a time as any to take a closer look at the tumultuous love life of the band’s lead singer and guitarist.
Cheating on his wife
On September 10, 2024, Grohl made an announcement on social media that rocked the world — especially the world of his wife, Jordyn Blum, and their three daughters, Violet May, 18, Harper Willow, 15, and Ophelia Saint, 10. He said in the statement: “I’ve recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage. I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her. I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness. We’re grateful for your consideration toward all the children involved, as we move forward together. Dave.”
Grohl’s fourth daughter was born on August 1, 2024, and since the announcement, the Foo Fighters guitarist and his TV producer wife have made several joint public appearances, a fact many have taken as an indication of their resolve to work through this hurdle in their marriage.
After first meeting Blum in 2001, Grohl went down on one knee and married the actor-director in 2003. The pair have been together for over 22 years and share a beautiful family together. At the start of 2025, Grohl’s baby mama, Jennifer Young, revealed her identity when the 38-year-old Florida-born rock music fan shared that their daughter had Grohl’s last name.
Cheating on his other wife (allegedly)
Grohl has been married once before, to photographer Jennifer Leigh Youngblood, and the pair met in 1994 while he was still a member of the legendary grunge band, Nirvana. Grohl went on to form the Foo Fighters later that year, after Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s death in April.
In a 1999 interview with the weekly British music magazine Melody Maker, the Foo Fighters frontman admitted: “I was 25, my wife [Youngblood] was even younger. We weren’t ready to get married. I miss her a tonne, she’s the funniest goddamn weirdo you ever met in your life. Absolutely adorable. It would have been better had we not got married. But you live and you learn.”
According to The Guardian, Nirvana’s drummer admitted to cheating on Youngblood, which is allegedly what caused the pair to split up in 1997. The publication reported that the “admitted infidelities” and divorce “caused the departure from the Foo Fighters ranks of Pat Smeal, latterly Nirvana’s auxiliary guitarist and a close friend [of Youngblood].”
David Grohl’s relationships
In the early nineties, Grohl dated L7 bassist Jennifer Finch, however, it seems their break up wasn’t an amicable one. In the 2016 documentary ‘L7: Pretend We’re Dead’, Finch was captured in archive footage flicking through a magazine and spotting a photo of Grohl from his Nirvana days. She was then seen saying: “Everywhere I go, everywhere I turn, I see this f***ing face. Frankly, I’m sick of it.”
Finch told The Big Takeover in 2015: “I have my own memories of those times, and those memories are at a point where they are fading. I don’t want someone else’s ingrained into my brain.” Around 1997, following Grohl’s divorce from Jennifer Leigh Youngblood, the Foo Fighters rocker struck up a fleeting romance with Veruca Salt frontwoman Louise Post.
Post went on to contribute backing vocals to the Foo Fighters album ‘The Colour And The Shape’. However, their relationship quickly cooled when Grohl set his sights on Hollywood’s breakout star Winona Ryder. After their split, Veruca Salt fans became convinced their track ‘Disconnected’ was penned about Grohl and how he called time on their relationship, given the revealing lyrics. The words said: “It’s kind of scary when your lover leaves you for a movie star.”
Nevertheless, Post reassured supporters that she and Dave harboured no ill feelings. She told The Sydney Morning Herald: “People definitely read things into my songs. It was a private relationship, but it got so much publicity. I didn’t mean for it to happen. I’m friends with him now.”
If reports are to be believed, Grohl was romantically linked with champion snowboarder Tina Basich between 1998 and 1999. Their relationship came to an end around the time Basich suffered a leg injury, which left her professional career in jeopardy for months.
In her 2003 memoir Pretty Good For A Girl, Basich disclosed: “Breakups suck. But rockstar exits are the worst. All I got was a five-minute phone call from him, after five weeks of me calling and trying to get ahold of him because I just had to know if these rumours were true.”
She admitted the period was so traumatic that she found it challenging to revisit whilst penning her autobiography. The decorated snowboarder explained: “It was really hard for me. I rewrote my book five times and not until the fifth rewrite did Dave Grohl make the book.” While insanely talented and a certified music legend, Dave Grohl’s personal life has often overshadowed his art.
Source: Mirror
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