People don’t take seriously the fact that, to cheat on your wife, you need to be a very duplicitous character. You need to lie every day to the people you are meant to love most in the world. And yet Grohl has this reputation as “the nicest guy in rock”. I know people said similar things about my ex – just swap “rock” for ‘pop’.
People don’t pay attention to the fact that if a rock star is sleeping with other women behind his wife’s back, she has no way of protecting her own sexual health. She’s not consenting to sex with a man who is sleeping with many, many different women. If she did know what he was doing, she would perhaps choose not to sleep with him. But she is “spared” that little nugget of information, and we all know why.
These types of men do not have any issue with being accused of being cheats or shaggers, so these revelations will not do Dave Grohl’s reputation any harm at all. In fact, it only enhances their alpha male status – it makes them more desirable, not less; more women want to sleep with them, more guys look up to them. But what about the utter carnage they leave behind?
In Grohl’s statement he places great emphasis on all the characters in this particularly sorry tale moving forward “together” and rebuilding trust. But I can’t help but wonder how much of this “togetherness” his wife has been a part of. I mean, was there a lot of “togetherness” when he was sloping off to have unprotected sex with another woman and then getting back into bed with her?
I doubt very much Dave Grohl will be rebuilding anything. If there is one thing I know about cheating “rock stars” – whatever statements they put out to the contrary to save their reputation – it is that they certainly do not change their ways. Why should they? Their ways are working just fine for them.