In September, Dave Grohl announced that he fathered a child outside of his marriage. Dave, 55, is currently on his second marriage, to 48-year-old Jordyn Bloom. Dave and Jordyn have three daughters together, the youngest of whom is 10 years old. Soon after Dave’s announcement, People Mag reported that Dave hired a divorce lawyer just before he made his big reveal. I’ve thought this whole time that there was another part to the story, something that had not been revealed yet – for example, the side-chick was considering suing him or going public in some way, or some journalist got a tip about the baby. In the past two months, there’s been little movement though – we don’t know the identity of the side-chick, and while Dave’s marriage seems to be going through a rough patch, no one has filed for divorce. Well, here’s an update:
Dave Grohl and wife Jordyn Blum are taking steps toward a reconciliation. The Foo Fighters rocker, 55, retained a divorce attorney shortly before announcing in September that he’d become the father of a new baby with another woman, a source told PEOPLE at the time — but now, an insider says he’s changed his tune.
“He’s no longer working with a divorce attorney and instead hoping to work things out with his wife,” the insider says.
Though Grohl and Blum, 48, have both been spotted without their wedding rings in recent weeks, the musician said in his initial statement that he and his wife of 21 years would “move forward together” after the shock baby announcement.
A second source tells PEOPLE that the rocker “loves his family,” which includes Blum and their daughters Violet, 18, Harper, 15, and Ophelia, 10, and is doing what he can to keep things intact.
“Dave’s been prioritizing his family,” the source says. “He knows he messed up. It’s one of those situations where you don’t realize what you have until you’re about to lose it. He doesn’t want to lose his family.”
In his statement in September, Grohl wrote that he planned to “be a loving and supportive parent” to his new baby daughter, but was working hard to make things right with his wife and older girls. “I love my wife and children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness,” he wrote.
Though Grohl and Blum have not publicly addressed the state of their marriage, multiple sources told PEOPLE that Blum, co-founder of an interior design firm, has known about the baby “for a while.”
It’s interesting to me that someone – Jordyn, perhaps? – is keeping People Magazine abreast of developments. As for Dave and the divorce lawyer… it’s possible that the lawyer was being retained for some other purpose besides “divorce.” Jordyn might have wanted a post-nup in which her three daughters are given more rights to Dave’s estate. Most divorce lawyers are experts in family law, meaning the lawyer could have been working out some logistics with the mother of this outside-the-marriage baby (custodial provisions, child support, etc). It seems normal that Dave would have been consulting a lawyer in recent months, and not everything is about a divorce. That being said, I hope Jordyn does what’s right for her. If she feels like staying and working through it, so be it.
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It’s some weird cosmic justice that he is fathering only daughters… I hope they meet men that treat women better than Dave does.
In his defense, he seems to like and treat women well. He just can’t keep it in his pants, like so many men. And especially “rock stars.”
@agnes we don’t do current or future generations of women any favours when we say “oh he’s a great guy and champion of women but he can’t remain honest and respectful of his committed partner.” That’s a pretty bro centric narrative. If you can’t be faithful then don’t get married. Simple as that.
I didn’t say he was a great guy. I’m saying he seems to like women. Too much. I personally don’t think anyone should get married, lol. Marriage is the ultimate patriarchal institution.
“in his defense” @agnes. You said what you said.
He does not have a reputation for treating women well. Never has. Look, I’ve always liked Dave Grohl, but it was well known that he was a cheater. To me, the surprising thing about this whole mess is that people were surprised by it.
It’s one thing to be a serial non-monogamist, but quite another when you’re lying to your partner. There’s honesty and ethics to it, which he failed at. And he’s human, so that happens. Hopefully he’ll learn. But I doubt he’ll stop sleeping around.
Noo, thank you for pointing out that I said what I said. I believe Dave loves Jordyn and their daughters, and love is a great healer. Extramarital Sex is a temptation, and many give into it without losing their (flawed) humanity.
He embarrassed and humiliated his wife by breaking marriage vows. And he did it over and over again. He risked her health by having unprotected sex with another woman. He hurt his children. And he brought another child into a complicated family dynamic. And the entire world knows all about it. That is not treating women well. It is careless and selfish.
I see his unfaithfulness under the same light as I would, if the cheater in question was a woman: It’s wrong, but sh1t happens. And it wouldn’t be the first time that a wife agrees to keep married to a wealthy man in his situation, and even welcome the outside kid into their lives.
What I find the most strange and concerning, is that it was reported that side-chick in question is his oldest daughter’s class bestie. Meaning he had actual time and additional arguments to reconsider whatever hots he had for her. It’s not as if he’d have difficult to get women elsewhere! Not to mention that, most likely, he started interacting with this young girl while she was still underage. Gross. And odd.
He NOW realizes how much is at $take and like Michael Jordan did a time or two, went back to his faithful wife –
I hope she realizes what is truly bringing him back.
@Fernanda
If Jordyn chooses to stay with Dave after this, she will be setting a horrible example for her daughters, just like Behati Prinsloo did, and Dominic West’s wife. By staying she’s showing that this behavior is without consequence, PERIOD. These women aren’t thinking of what that choice – to stay – does to their children, especially their daughters. Tbh it’s selfish and nearsighted. They will grow up thinking ‘mom took dad back, why shouldn’t I?’ when they’ll be mistreated. The doormat cycle continues. I felt bad for her but if she stays, it shows she doesn’t care what that message says (and shapes) her daughters’ minds, and that no only deserves zero sympathy, but active criticism. Women who don’t leave are part of the problem, and they’ll see the damage they caused in that choice when it shows up later in their daughters’ love lives.
PS if the rumors are true that this girl is YOUNG and a friend of his daughter’s, that makes the wife’s choice to stay despicable.
I think as a woman and a mother there is no way to feel like there is a “right” answer. Not wanting disturb the children’s lives any more than necessary can easily lead to “forgiving” the cheating partner.
Considering he is away a lot due to touring as well as the huge advantage of being a millionaire, though, I absolutely agree with you.
I agree with you 💯 @mage!
Even if his wife decides to take him back his “good guy/nice guy” rep is in the toilet as far as I’m concerned….
Same here! Hubby and I had an Austin City Lights episode with the Foo Fighters that we hadn’t gotten around to watching yet, I deleted it yesterday, no desire to see that man.
Same. This is very disappointing. He really did seem like a good guy.
There are many of these ‘good guys’ that are like this. The most successful are the sneakiest.
Jamie Dornan, Theo James, Pierce Brosnan, Cillian Murphy, Paul Rudd, Stephen Colbert: the list goes on and on. But the thing is, the wives stay because they don’t want to divorce – these men know this – so they act accordingly. The women only care if they are embarrassed publicly – and even then, they stay.
Wish these women – including Jordyn – would wake up and show that behavior is a relationship ender, but they won’t. At least Jen Garner eventually left – I will forever respect her for that, and how it shows her daughters it’s not okay to forgive it.
Jamie Dornan, Theo James, Pierce Brosnan, Cillian Murphy, Paul Rudd, Stephen Colbert.
They’ve cheated as well? No!
@Mage- Don’t offer tea if you ain’t spilling it all. What’s up with those nem?
I wonder how this is going to work moving forward, with Dave’s stated intention to be a loving and present parent is he expecting his wife and daughters to accept this little girl? Does he think that they’ll be one, big happy family? Hang out together? Or will his wife and daughters want nothing to do with her and how then, if he going to spend time with her? Personally, if I were Jordyn, I’d have a tough time with my husband leaving our family to go see his side-chick and “other” daughter. For me, it wouldn’t be a tough decision, I’d let him go, wish him the best but I’m not interested in making it work anymore.
I mean, there are lots of possibilities here:
1) the baby is blameless, and it’s entirely possible for her half-siblings to be very upset at how she came into being while still taking time to get to know their sibling (even if this doesn’t happen immediately, if emotions are too raw for a few years).
2) Same logic potentially applies to Jordyn too – the baby is not to blame, so it’s possible she could welcome the baby into the home for visits. (That might be a lot harder for her though, compared to the older siblings, esp if she was DONE with having kids etc)
3) while he will obviously need to coordinate parenting stuff with the side piece, visitation don’t mean “hanging out” with her – think of all the divorced parents in the world who share parenting duties – it does not mean they are hanging out together when they have the kids. He can spend time with his daughter and NOT the SP.
4) whatever he works out, it IS good that he isn’t pulling some Owen Wilson shit and blaming the child for his own inability to keep it in his pants by refusing to see or acknowledge his child. So whatever situation they come to that works for everyone involved, hopefully this little girl will grow up feeling loved by her parents, just as she and every other child deserves to be.
I think it’s unfair to judge Jordyn if she stays. (And it’s early days, her not ditching him today does not guarantee a thing.) But I honestly can’t imagine what it would take to make this work if it were me.
The baby girl is blameless, but her existence means that the affair partner isn’t going anywhere. She’ll be around. That is not going to be easy for Jordyn.
If Jordyn’s kids struggle with any/all of this: that he cheated, that its public, that they now have a new sibling, that the side chick is forever enmeshed in their lives? Jordyn will resent Dave for it.
And he is a Rock Star that will be on tour in the future, or away doing band things. The level of trust she’d need in order to not be triggered every time he’s out of her sight? I just can’t see how one person could deal with all of that.
It’s quite possible that she WANTS it to work now and thinks she can find a way to move forward with him, and time will prove she can’t.
So cliched.
No concerns for your partner. We don’t know if his relationship is open or closed, but clearly he has no discretion, no desire to protect himself from STIs or his wife from STIs, or preventing a pregnancy. I feel sorry for his kids and partner.
Same for the mother of his newest child. Also hooking up and getting pregnant as a way of connecting with someone famous or getting money, gross. No one asks to be born, but that kind of notoriety isn’t fair at all.
Dave has sold himself as Rock Star Girl Dad and good guy family man for years now.
That PR is dead now.
Gotta say his lawyers are doing a remarkable job on keeping the side piece Mom quiet.
Bet that NDA was huge.
I’d have thought we’d have seen photo and info pretty quickly.
This coming out and finding out that Taylor Hawkins practically begged Dave to get a break from constant touring.
But now that Dave has his ass in a sling “Foo Fighters cancel tour”
Go away Dave. I have him on ignore now.
Lost all interest in him.
Respect for whatever Jordyn chooses, but man, I think of this and Adam Levine carrying out and I just wish these guys would get their FAFO comeuppance. These guys cultivate these sweet home lives and then act like their behavior has no consequences. And in Levine’s case, he “won”–lovebombed his wife, paid off those with whom he cheated, and now gets to go back playing house. Now it appears Dave Grohl has “won” as well. You should not be able to lie, cheat, and betray trust–isn’t that what we teach our kids? He shouldn’t be able to buy his way back into his family.
I can definitely see moving forward in a spirit of friendship, but I don’t know that I could ever be intimate with a life partner who lied to my face, no matter how much I wished our life could go back to the way it was.
This is probably more to do with him protecting his money and assets – they have 2 young kids so he’d be on the hook for a LOT alimony and child support considering how much he is worth. Remember how he screwed over his first wife – his lawyer has likely told him he won’t be able to pull that one again.
Decent lawyer (we have no info on his side chick and he’s been able to keep stuff quiet) and terrible PR (who prints that the divorce has been canceled because he [does] love his family?!).
“He knows he messed up. It’s one of those situations where you don’t realize what you have until you’re about to lose it. He doesn’t want to lose his family.”
I’m glad he’s figured out that he messed up./s
Betrayed his 3 daughters trust.
Cheating is cheating. Period.
But to get the other woman pregnant is even worse.
Anyway you turn this, Dave has problems that are his own fault.
Things will never be the same. And that is his fault.
At 55? Grow up!
I hope if they divorce, he pays huge.
And his daughters of the long marriage get some concrete Trust $$ to protect their part of his estate.
Dave is claimed to have $350Million.
I hope this mess costs him big money!
He looks like a lobster in the first picture. That’s all I got in the argument 😆 🤣
How is he keeping the side Mom so quiet?
What about the rumors she was a friend of his oldest daughter?
Rumor was she is a 19-20 y/o that the entire family has known for a few years.
If so, that adds pain all around. And def adds an Eww factor on top of the betrayal.
Did Dave have his lawyers move her to a quiet spot, bought and paid for with an NDA?
In the next few years, IMO, the original daughters should be allowed to decide for themselves if they want to meet #4.
Dave is gonna be dogged in interviews for years if The FF continue in the future.
He has dug himself a good sized hole!
So do we know that they have a monogamous marriage? It seems unlikely to me that, given his reputation, which he probably had when they met, she didn’t know he was running around.
That begin said, fathering a baby with another woman is just plain irresponsible and embarrassing for his family, particularly his daughters. Not to mention there’s an innocent baby stuck in the middle of all this drama. And he’s shoved his wife and daughters into it, too. Everyone is shoved into his personal crap. And he’s pushing 60. Way too old for this.
What’s the matter with these old goats that they don’t get a vasectomy? Especially when there’s a marriage and kids.
1000% my thoughts! If you’re gonna be an asshole and cheat, get snipped, wrap it up, it’s the very least you can do to contain fallout that would hurt the people you claim to love and care about.
I’m just surprised there are premenopausal women who want to sex up Dave Grohl.
🤣🤣🤣 comment of the week!