In the past few years, the Foo Fighters frontman faced the deaths of his bandmate and mother before coming clean about his infidelity.
To be able to admit the truth, “I had to turn everything off, one of those things being my concern for what other people think,” he told the paper in his first interview since announcing his infidelity.
Grohl has been married to Jordyn Blum since 2003, and they have three daughters, Violet, Harper, and Ophelia. “Being able to shut off that part of yourself can be sometimes a very healthy exercise in considering life within your immediate radius,” he added. “Not giving all of that so much currency within yourself that it can completely destroy yourself.” Grohl also reflected on a time when he was overly committed to a thousand projects, telling the Guardian, “There were years where I was so overly ambitious with things, like a documentary series on HBO, writing a book, whatever. I think having grown up in suburban Virginia with a public-school teacher as a mother, any opportunity you got, you would take. But over time, you spread yourself so thin. And so I look back and I’m like, God, what was I trying to prove? There is such a thing as addiction to achievement, and it’s dangerous. You’ll set a goal for yourself and you put everything you have into it; the world disappears. Then you achieve that finish line, and it feels good for 24 fucking hours, and that feeling immediately goes away. And there’s that hole again, there’s that emptiness, and you’re like, shit, I need to fill it up with something else.” This dynamic did not justify his infidelity, Grohl noted, but it led him to further self-examination. “I think that’s how I ended up overextending myself and getting lost,” he said. “I wasn’t sitting with myself and really letting 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.” Therapy, Grohl said, led him to a space of deep introspection and helped him face his own frailties and limitations. “If you finally sit with yourself and consider humility and gratitude and empathy … you can strip away all the other bullshit and find those few things that are most important,” he told the Guardian. “But that takes turning off the world and stopping and sitting in silence with yourself.” Originally published in Vanity Fair Italia.
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