Inside Dave Grohl’s VERY star-studded love life: Twice-married rock legend has had rumored romances with Christina Aguilera, Winona Ryder, and more – decades prior to secret baby bombshell
Dave Grohl has admitted to cheating on his wife Jordyn Blum and secretly fathering a child.
The 55-year-old Foo Fighters singer made the admission in a statement he posted on Instagram on Tuesday.
The statement read: ‘I recently became the father of a new baby daughter, born out of wedlock. I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her.
“I love my wife and my children, and I am committed to earning their trust and forgiveness. We are grateful for your attention to all the children involved as we move forward together.”
Grohl and Blum, 48, met in 2001 and have been married since 2003. They have three daughters: Violet, Harper and Ophelia.
But before Grohl started dating Blum, he had already dated a number of celebrities.
A look inside Dave Grohl’s star-studded love life – from rumored affairs with Christina Aguilera and Winona Ryder to relationships with alt-rock leading ladies
The former Nirvana drummer has dated Louise Post (Veruca Salt), Jennifer Finch (L7) and snowboarder Tina Basich. He was also rumored to have romanced Christina Aguilera and Winona Ryder.
But Grohl has debunked rumors that he is dating Christina. The rocker made it clear during an interview with a radio station that he has not had a romantic relationship with the singer. chatterbox was already reported in 2002.
According to Christina’s website, the rumor about Grohl and her husband’s relationship was also quashed at the time. Rolling Stone.
As for real-life romances, Grohl dated Louise Post, a singer and guitarist for Veruca Salt, after his marriage to Jennifer Youngblood ended in 1997.
Grohl divorced Youngblood in 1997 after admitting to infidelity during their three-year marriage — per The Guardian.
Her relationship with Post served as inspiration for the iconic Foo Fighters song Everlong. In 2021, she spoke candidly about her contribution to the song and what Grohl whispered during the track.
She shared a rough version of Everlong on her Instagram, writing in the caption, “I sang these background vocals at 2am over the phone after being woken up from a deep sleep in Chicago by DG recording vocals for ‘Everlong’ in LA.
“He wanted me to sing the doo-doo’s, which were inspired by our song ‘Shimmer Like a Girl.’ As I was doing it, I wrote a harmony for the chorus and sang it.
“The whispered part of this song was originally the dream I was having when the phone rang. It was a dream about us. He later deleted it and replaced it with his own whisper, one that was a love letter to me.”
As for real-life romances, Grohl dated Louise Post, a singer and guitarist for Veruca Salt after his marriage to Jennifer Youngblood ended in 1997; photo 2017
Grohl allegedly ended his relationship with Post so he could seduce Winona Ryder; photo August 2024
Ryder pictured in 2000
There were rumors that Aguilera, pictured in 2002, was dating Grohl, but both she and the rocker shut down the speculation
But after a year together, they split – Grohl allegedly ended their relationship so he could seduce Winona Ryder, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Post was apparently inspired by the split and wrote several songs about it, including Disconnected, although she later suggested that the lyrics weren’t about Grohl at all.
She insisted that they were friends now.
“People definitely read things into my songs. In interviews, any mention of him makes me angry. 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,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2003.
Grohl also dated Jennifer Finch, a bassist in the all-female punk rock band L7; pictured in 2020
Grohl also dated Jennifer Finch, a bassist in the all-female punk rock band L7.
According to Biography, their bands moved in similar social circles and they started hanging out together shortly after Grohl joined Nirvana as drummer.
Finch recalls watching Nirvana rise to fame after the release of their album Nevermind in a documentary about her band, L7: Pretend We’re Dead.
“And it blew up,” she said, according to Grunge. “Everywhere I go, everywhere I look, I see this f***ing face,” Finch said. “Honestly, I’m sick of it.”
In the late 1990s, Grohl also dated professional snowboarder Tina Basich.
Grohl also dated professional snowboarder Tina Basich in the late 1990s; Basich pictured in 2004
They dated for two years until he finally broke it off.
In her 2003 memoir, Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer, she alleged that Grohl had cheated on her.
“I don’t know how anyone in their line of work can have a normal relationship with a girlfriend… or two, as it turns out. I found out through the grapevine, when it seemed like everyone in the world knew about it except me,” she wrote, according to Page six.
‘Breakups suck. But Rockstar exits are the worst. All I got was a five-minute phone call from him, after five weeks of calling him and trying to get a hold of him, because I just had to know if these rumors were true and hear it straight from the source.
She claimed she had received “nothing” from Grohl because he had “disappeared off the face of the earth,” but that she was “everywhere else” because of his career as a rock star.