Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl Suffers From Hearing Loss: "I've Been Reading Lips For 20 Years"

Dave Grohl suffers from hearing loss.

The 53-year-old Foo Fighters frontman revealed that he suffers from ringing-ear condition tinnitus and has had to lipread for more than 20 years.

Speaking on The Howard Stern Show to promote the new horror flic, Studio 666, Grohl said: "I'm f****** deaf! I haven’t had [my ears] tested in a long time — I mean, I know what they’re gonna say. You have hearing damage tinnitus in your left ear, more so than your right ear."

He went on to explain that the "worst part" of the COVID-19 pandemic for him is the mask-wearing because he struggles to hear what people are saying to him through the cloth.

He said: "If you were sitting next to me right here at dinner, I wouldn’t understand a f******word you were saying to me, the whole f****** time,” he explained. “There’s no way. In a crowded restaurant, that’s worse.

"That’s the worst thing about this pandemic s***, it’s like, people wearing masks. I’ve been reading lips for like, 20 years, so when someone comes up to me and they’re like [garbled noise], I’m like, ‘I’m a rock musician. I’m f****** deaf, I can’t hear what you’re saying."

However, Grohl went on to reveal that despite his hearing loss, he is still able to hear every detail of a song he constructs with his band because his ears are still "tuned into certain frequencies."

He said: "My ears are still tuned in to certain frequencies, and if I hear something that’s slightly out of tune, or a cymbal that’s not bright enough or something like that, in the mix, I can f****** hear the minutiae of everything that we have done to that song, I really can!"

— BANG SHOWBIZ

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