Dave Grohl Addresses Infidelity, Says He Goes to Therapy ‘Six Days a Week’

Grohl explained that he faced a series of challenges, including Hawkins’ death in 2022 , his mother’s death four months later, and a public revelation of infidelity in 2024. Grohl said experiencing the two deaths in a row “was almost too much to feel.” He added, “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.” The musician started going to therapy for many reasons. “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.” The...