The name of the woman who welcomed a baby with Dave Grohl has reportedly come forward months after news of his cheating scandal.
Page Six reported on Friday, February 21, that Jennifer Young — a 38-year-old from Los Angeles — welcomed a child with Grohl in August 2024 amid his marriage to wife Jordyn Blum. (Us Weekly has reached to to Grohl’s team for comment.)
Young reportedly asked the publication not to reveal the name of her and Grohl’s child, stating that there are “some really angry fans.” She noted: “Protecting her identity is really important.”
Grohl, who has been married Blum since 2003, announced in a statement shared via Instagram in September 2024, that he had cheated on his wife and welcomed a baby outside of their marriage. (Grohl and Blum share daughters Violet, 18, Harper, 15, and Ophelia, 10.)
“I’ve recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage,” Grohl wrote. “I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her. I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness. We’re grateful for your consideration toward all the children involved, as we move forward.”
Despite the scandal, he and Blum were spotted out together earlier this month. It was also reported in December 2024 that the family had plans to spend the holidays together.
Following Grohl’s cheating revelation, an excerpt surfaced from snowboarder Tina Basich’s 2003 memoir in which she accused Grohl of seeing another woman during their two-year relationship in the 1990s.
“I don’t know how anyone in his profession can have a normal relationship with a girlfriend … or two, as it turned out,” Basich alleged in Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer. “I found out secondhand, through the grapevine, when it seemed like everyone else in the world knew about it but me.”
Basich attempted to get details from Grohl, who allegedly told her “nothing” and broke things off with her.
“All I got was a five-minute phone call from him, after five weeks of me calling and trying to get ahold of it because I just had to know if these rumors were true and had to hear it straight from the source,” she wrote.
Before his marriage to Blum, Grohl tied the knot with Jennifer Leigh Youngblood in 1994, but the twosome divorced in 1997 after Grohl admitted to infidelity during their relationship, per The Guardian.
“I was 25, my wife was even younger. We weren’t ready to get married,” Grohl told Melody Maker magazine in 1999 following his divorce with Youngblood. “I miss her a ton, she’s the funniest goddamn weirdo you’ve ever met in your life. Absolutely adorable. It would have been better had we not got married. But you live and you learn.”
