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It’s been a little over a year since Dave Grohl announced that he’d fathered a baby girl out of wedlock. I know it feels like this went down two plus years ago, but it was September 2024. We’ve all lived several lifetimes since then, but that baby has only lived one year! (GONG.) The biggest stories at the time were how Dave’s scandal affected his wife of 21 years, Jordyn Blum, and his three daughters, who had to deactivate their social media accounts after his announcement. Apparently, Dave had consulted a divorce lawyer and Jordyn was devastated, but they were able to work things out.
Dave’s always been a huge supporter of the underserved and unhoused communities. In the past, he’s shown up without announcement to cook for communities in Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia. Over the weekend, he attended a charity gala with Jordyn. Although they’ve been spotted in public a few times since the scandal went down, this was their first red carpet event.
Dave Grohl and Jordyn Blum were seen together in a rare joint public outing following the baby revelation that rocked their 21-year marriage. On Saturday, Oct. 18, the Foo Fighters frontman, 56, and former television producer, 49, attended the Hope The Mission and Los Angeles Mission Present Hope in The City Of Angels charity gala at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
The fundraiser to support the homeless was the first time that the couple posed together on a red carpet at a formal event since it was revealed that Grohl welcomed a fourth child “outside of [his] marriage” in September 2024.
Blum opted for a belted mini-dress and sandals with her hair in a stylish up-do, while Grohl coordinated in an all-black suit.
A video shared on a Foo Fighters fan Instagram account captured the moment Grohol was honored at the event for his volunteer work in Los Angeles. He also pledged a financial contribution to the non-profit organization and auctioned off handwritten lyrics.
Prior to the fundraiser, Grohl and Blum were last seen together in public at the 2025 Wimbledon Tennis Championships in July.
Whatever you may think about Dave’s infidelity and Jordyn’s decision to take him back, there is no denying that Dave has done a lot for the unhoused. People are complicated. I think that in *some* circumstances, it’s okay to acknowledge a public figure’s dichotomy, and this is one of those times. Dave’s made some disappointing personal decisions, but he’s still unquestionably done good for others. Jordyn and Dave choosing this event as their first official red carpet appearance sends a message that this is still a cause that’s important to both of them. FWIW, they looked happy and relaxed in the red carpet pictures. Jordyn looked absolutely gorgeous as always. I will never not be mesmerized by her eyes. They’re stunning. Whatever’s going on behind the scenes, I hope she’s happy and doing okay.
I am not fond of couple who stay together instead of divorcing the hell out of each other, but I assume that if you marry a rockstar you must accept infidelities and side pieces, maybe having a deal about children or scandal, who knows how do these people work.
I’m sure they worked out something between them. Being a family guy was part of his pr persona and after 21 years and 2 children she could have really taken him to the cleaners
Three children. Infidelity seems to be a long term pattern with him, so she probably knew what she was getting into.
I truly think this is a situation where the public should mind its own business, but that’s just me.
100%, good buddy. I am so over the morality police clutching their pearls about strangers’ private lives. I know plenty of selfish, unkind people who never cheated, so this idea that “cheating = bad person” is just lazy math. Human morality is a lot more complicated than that.
Having unprotected sex without your spouse’s knowledge = robbing her of consent.
That’s not complicated, imo.
Cheater = Bad person, far as I am concerned.
If they want to work it out, that’s their business.
Unfortunately, we live in a society where people in the public eye constantly get defined by the worst thing they’ve ever done.
If she chooses to forgive him and move on that’s her business. I don’t think I could get past it–particularly because of the pregnancy–but people in the comments are personalizing the situation to an extreme degree. We don’t know all the details–they could be in ongoing, intense couples therapy and could be making real breakthroughs and growing closer. We just don’t know how/why they’ve decided that it’s best to stay in the marriage.
@Tuesday
Do you know what website you are on? It’s celebitchy. This is literally a site for celeb news and gossip.
Whatever you think of his good work with the unhoused it doesn’t erase the fact that he’s a cheating cheater that could never keep it in his pants even before his current wife. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had other children on the dl. Why don’t these men get snipped???
the funny thing is, the DM and its ilk routinely refer to this type of dichotomy as “hypocrisy” — which is I think a deliberate oversimplification. You can be a shitty person in your domestic life and a champion of strangers in your public life. The two are separate things. The guy who saved us from a nuclear exchange (once that we know of, likely more) had so many side pieces he likely forgot their names. They’re just different categories. But I think the right-wing agenda of the tabloids skews toward policing personal behaviour as a distraction from official corruption. Thatcher was very prim. But she presided over orgiastic profiteering in the go-go 80s, much of it fuelled by funny money and cocaine. Go figure.
I don’t know about any right-wing agenda as regards to cheating — if anything the patriarchy pats cheaters on the back. Big time.
Personally, I don’t compartmentalize people’s behavior, mostly because betraying the people closest to you should not be normalized as no biggie, imo. It does women, in particular, no favors at all to shrug when men won’t meet the lowest possible bar of decency. Fathering a child with someone else? C’mon.
Divorce is a LOT of work, financially, emotionally, logistically. And they still have daughters who are minors I believe. As you get older, sometimes you just pick the option that is less work and stay with the person you have lived with for 20 years and are used to. Maybe once the kids are gone they will split up.
Divorce would be a lot easier for her than for most people, because she has the money to pay lawyers, movers, nannies, etc.
What is REALLY a lot of work is to stay with someone who disrespects you and lies to you on the regular — someone you absolutely cannot trust. Getting “used to” betrayal? No thanks. I wouldn’t wish that for anyone, man or woman, as they get older.
Divorce is never easy, regardless of the financials. Ok, you’d do what you would do, but you’re not Jordyn or any other woman who chooses to stay.
Yeah, sorry, no. I don’t see it is a triumph that they “worked it out.” They’ve taken this time to work it out with the baby mama, no doubt shoveling money at her to buy her silence, and, it’s easy to believe that the wife herself got a handsome payout. Now that all agreements for silence are apparently in place, they are ready to resume public life. And he can rehabilitate his reputation. That’s what you’re seeing here. Shit tons of money bought this. Imma give it a hard eyeroll and move along.
You have hit the nail on the head here!
an ex-boyfriend’s mum once confided to me, in a very knowing way, as a real sign of confidence, “it’s the devil you know,” and the fact is, her son was absolutely lovely. Would have made anyone a lovely husband. Just not mine. She was not terribly happy in her marriage. A lot of women in the UK tend to take that view. Which I totally understand, if you have kids and no job. No money. You stay, if the person is bearable. Manageable. They were British. But it tends to enable a level of cynicism that just muddies the waters. So people don’t react in real time to real abuse when it happens. They have too many overdeveloped coping skills.
It’s the unsafe sex part that would anger me most as a partner. You think you are “safe” with your “monogamous” partner, but then find out he has been exposing himself to STIs with who knows how many different people for who knows how long? I would never get over that.
Exactly this. Every time he’s out of sight she can’t trust him. She has to get tested regularly. I love his music but what a disappointment.
^ this!
That brings consequences of what he’s doing in the shadows into our home, our bed.
Also, DG’s situation is different, but in most cases most people in couples have limited resources (time, money, attention, effort) so a guy cheating, having a side relationship diverts some of those limited shared resources away from his spouse and children and his shared life with them.
And of course, the lying and deprioritizing, devaluing of spouse and kids in service of WTF he’s chasing.
It really is devastating.
They do look happy and I like that for them. I’m glad they worked things out.
I understand not divorcing (for logistical, financial, parenting, etc reason), but staying in the relationship is crazy work. How do ever trust a person who had an entire child behind your back?! And brought your kids into it by making them siblings and keeping the betrayal in their lives forever?! I could never get there. Never.
On this one, I think Dave deserves a pass. Was what he did absolutely horrible for his wife and children? Yes. But this man has had TWO bandmates die on him in horrific situations and if his wife can forgive him then who are we to judge.
I’ve also lost friends to tragic circumstances, but I don’t think I would get a pass if I had a CHILD outside my marriage.
Two bandmates died years and years ago, therefore he is allowed to cheat on his wife? Hmm. 🧐
It’s the sad sausage excuse. “I hurt, therefore I get to betray my family.” Does she cheat when she’s hurt? Nope.
Except we don’t know if she’s ever cheated on him or not? It’s not unheard of for both partners to cheat over the course of 20 plus years of marriage. We don’t know what we don’t know. That’s the problem with having such a strong opinion on how other people should handle their relationships–we’re not privy to all the details so opinions here are based on assumptions.
The truth is that your favorite, unproblematic celeb might also be a cheater but it’s never become public because both people kept it on the DL. Not every affair involves a baby and becomes as public as this one.
@kitten — I think it was quite clear from initial reporting that Jordyn was shocked and blindsided by the baby news. That means she didn’t know that he was having unprotected sex with other people. That is a violation of Jordyn’s consent.
Of course people get to do whatever they want to do in their relationships. However. I am aware that many, many women are DARVO’d in relationships, and I think it’s worthwhile to say, “Yes, cheating IS a big deal and not okay.” In my opinion, which is only mine of course, it is not healthy to normalize betrayal — which can be truly devastating in an intimate relationship. Too many voices tell women to lower their expectations — “he was sad” or “it’s just a mistake” (a baby!) or “all rockstars/hedge fund managers/politicians/baristas/whatever do it” or “are you sure you weren’t also doing something wrong?” (the worst).
I’ve seen all those kind of comments here, and I’m just saying that it leaves women quite unsupported. Again, Jordyn of course can do what she wants, but I’m speaking to wider cultural (and feminist) issues. It doesn’t help women (or men) to normalize their betrayal.
I’m not a fan of Dave Grohl for many, many reasons (including making shitty choices with regards to his philanthropic endeavors), but if you have been in a relationship this long the things you are able to forgive change and in the end it’s between them if they want to make it work.
No judgement here. I’m friends with my 1st ex husband. He was a shitty husband but he’s a solid dude. People can absolutely be be both.
nobody knows what goes on in a marriage outside of the couple. I think they probably had some sort of an arrangement, whether it was an “open” marriage or a “what happens on the road stays on the road” deal. I don’t know of many people in Grohl’s position who are married but stay celibate when they’re 100+ days on the road every year. Except the ones in their 70s.
and we don’t know if the mother of this baby was an ongoing “affair” or a one-off. the only thing that really surprises me about the whole thing is that he didn’t get snipped a decade ago.
Amen to the getting snipped a decade ago.
When this came out, the reddit thread about Dave with so many women posting of their quite disgusting encounters with him, (“you wanna blow a rockstar?’)
His drunken approaches to very young women, many comments echoed that in LA it’s well known that he’s community d to any young alt looking skinny woman
So many with the same story, quite sickening , yes. I Don’t believe everything I read, but as a part of the rock community it’s a common story because they can
Whatever, people are complicated, you can still do nice things, but let’s not join the let’s pretend he’s a great guy club here