In a shock, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl admitted that he was not only cheating on his wife, but has fathered a child with another woman. This has led many to wonder whether the 55-year-old rock star has a history of being a cheater with his past girlfriends. In an Instagram post on September 10, 2024, Grohl said that he had “become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of [his] marriage” and is trying to regain the trust of his wife, Jordyn Blum, and their children. Here’s what Dave Grohl’s exes have said about his alleged cheating behavior.
Has Dave Grohl cheated before?
Dave Grohl has allegedly cheated before, according to several of his past girlfriends, Louise Post from the alternative rock band Veruca Salt and snowboarder Tina Basich.
As noted by The Guardian, Grohl’s divorce from his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood, in 1997 was partially due to “admitted infidelities.” After his marriage ended, he began a relationship with Post but the relationship ended rather abruptly. During a 1997 show in Australia, Post revealed that Grohl was apparently cheating on her with actress Winona Ryder, per Outkick. Post admitted later that she was incredibly drunk at the time, but she didn’t take back her comments.
In the late 1990s, Grohl dated Basich, an American snowboarder who won multiple Winter X Games medals. Their relationship ended, however, in 1999 after she received word that he was secretly seeing another woman, according to Grunge. In her 2003 autobiography, “Pretty Good for a Girl,” she said, “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 rumors were true.” The breakup was so traumatic that Basich said it wasn’t “until the fifth rewrite” of the book that she chose to mention Grohl at all.
In his Instagram post, Grohl did not reveal who he cheated with, though he plans to be “a loving and supportive parent” to his new baby daughter. He wrote, “We’re grateful for your consideration toward all the children involved, as we move forward together.”
Grohl made controversial comments about Taylor Swift in June.
