Dave Grohl Reflects on Infidelity, Grief, and Finding His Heart After Taylor Hawkins' Death
Dave Grohl opens up about navigating personal challenges, including infidelity, the loss of Taylor Hawkins, and intensive therapy, in a revealing new interview.
Dave Grohl has recently reflected on a tumultuous period in his life, marked by personal struggles and profound loss. In a candid interview with The Guardian, the Foo Fighters frontman discussed his journey through therapy following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins, the passing of his mother, and the public revelation of fathering a child outside of his marriage.
Grohl revealed he underwent extensive therapy, attending sessions “six days a week for 70 weeks,” totaling over 430 sessions. He described the experience of losing Hawkins in 2022 and his mother just four months later as “almost too much to feel.”
"And so I did what I’ve always done, which was to just keep my boots on the ground and keep going. From the loss of Kurt Cobain to the loss of Taylor, I was afraid to sit and actually let those things into my heart,” Grohl confessed.
The musician explained that therapy became a necessary step in his healing process. “I have to be perfectly honest,” he said. “Writing songs and writing lyrics about these things is sometimes enough. 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. But I think that for many reasons, I wound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself and re-evaluate myself. It’s an ongoing process.”
This period of self-reflection coincided with his public acknowledgment of fathering a child outside of his marriage. In a statement released on Instagram, Grohl wrote, “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.”
Grohl told The Guardian that after releasing the statement he “had to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think.” “Being able to shut off that part of yourself can be sometimes a very healthy exercise in considering life within your immediate radius,” he said. “Not giving all of that so much currency within yourself that it can completely destroy yourself.”
He added that at the time “I wasn’t sitting with myself and really letting [feelings] go from my head into my heart. Getting to the point where I was just like, ‘I need to stop, turn everything off and find my heart.’”
Grohl also shared a poignant dream he had about Hawkins after his death: “I fell asleep on a couch, like this one, in front of a television,” he recounted. “I thought that I’d woken up, and he was sitting right next to me. It was so fucking real. He was happy. His hair looked great; he was tan. The first thing I said was: ‘Oh my God, we miss you so much.’ He smiled. I said, ‘Where are you?’ And he smiled again and said: ‘Dude –’ And I woke up. I was like: Fuck, I almost had it!”
In the interview, Grohl declined to address the departure of drummer Josh Freese, who toured with the Foo Fighters. Bassist Nate Mendel stated, “We made a decision that it was best for all parties. To get into the personal details [with Freese], of why that didn’t necessarily sync up, just didn’t seem like it was going to benefit anybody. Some things are OK to be like: this is what’s best for us, and we’re going in a different direction.”
Grohl had previously told Zane Lowe that moving on from Freese was in line with his history of performing with different drummers throughout his career. “Basically, we called Josh, and we were like, ‘Hey man, that was awesome. That was such a blast, thank you so much, but we’re going to move on and find another drummer,'” he said.
He added, “After that, we didn’t make a press release, tweet anything or do interviews. We didn’t say anything. Since then, there’s been a lot of talk about it, but I think Josh said it best when he was like, you know, he didn’t feel our music really resonated with him, and that’s really important, right?”
The Foo Fighters are set to release their 12th album, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24. The band recently shared a new song, "Caught in the Echo."
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