Dave Grohl is a divorced man. The question is, will he be a divorced man twice over.
In a shocking Instagram post, the Foo Fighters rocker admitted to the world that he had cheated on his wife of over 20 years. To make matters worse, the affair resulted in a love child.
This story perhaps sounds familiar to those who have followed Dave’s career since his Nirvana days. For the rest of us, it’s worth explaining that Dave Grohl knows exactly what happens when you cheat on a spouse: divorce.
How much of his marital history is about to repeat itself? Let’s dive in.
Dave Grohl’s Divorce: His First Marriage Ended In A Very Messy Way
Picture it: 1994. That’s the year Dave Grohl married his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood.
Her last name kind of says it all. At the time, Dave was only 25 years old. He was still with Nirvana and his friend, Kurt Cobain, had just died.
In later years, Dave admitted in interviews that he was far too young to get married. That’s probably why they split in 1997.
But that’s far from the end of the story.
There are conflicting reports as to why the two split, with one prevailing theory being that he cheated on her. For his part, Dave insisted that the split was amicable.
“I was 25, my wife was even younger. We weren’t ready to get married,” he once told NME. “I miss her a ton, 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.”
His First Divorce Broke Up The Band
Turns out, Dave Grohl’s divorce had bigger ramifications than just paperwork and division of assets.
It also fractured the Foo Fighters and led to one member leaving the group forever.
The story goes that guitarist Pat Smear was close friends with Jenner Youngblood, Dave’s first wife. The split apparently was the breaking point for Pat, who already was feeling touring fatigue and was at odds with Dave on how he was controlling the group.
“I was just so sick of it. I was just so sick of the whole thing,” Smear recalled in the documentary Foo Fighters: Back and Forth.
He added: “I [didn’t] want to go out on another bazillion show tour and I don’t care. I just [didn’t] want to do this anymore.”
And so, not only did Dave have to deal with a broken marriage, but he had to fix a broken band as well. He managed to mend fences with Pat, who toured with the band in 2006.
But some lessons are hard to learn than others.
Dave Gohl Faces Divorce Again With Second Wife
Six years later, Dave married his second wife Jordyn Blum at their Los Angeles home on August 2, 2003.
For over 20 years, the pair seemed to be in marital bliss. They welcomed three children, all girls, and Dave appeared to a doting dad even when he was out on tour.
“I used to tour nine months out of the year. Now I don’t like being away from my kids for more than 12 days,” he told Time in 2009.
Then, on Sep 10, 2024, he announced he was the father of a fourth little girl – but with another woman not his wife! Yes, Dave admitted to an affair in a short, but shocking statement on Instagram.
“I’ve recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage,” he wrote on Instagram Tuesday.
“I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness.”
Now the question is, will his second marriage end in divorce like his first? The truth is, right now, we don’t know. What we can tell you is, until this moment, there were zero rumblings about Dave divorcing his wife or vice versa. All seemed very well.
In fact, the pair were last spotted together at Wimbledon 2024, looking like the picture of a perfect couple.
Ah, how secrets destroy every love story. Guess we’ll know more
