Dave Grohl

On September 10, 2024, Dave Grohl shared on Instagram that he recently had a daughter with a woman outside of his marriage.

“I recently became the father of a baby girl, born out of wedlock,” the Foo Fighters frontman, who has three children with wife Jordyn Blum, wrote in a statement.

“I intend to be a loving and supportive parent to her. I love my wife and my children, and I am committed to doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness,” he continued. “We are grateful for your consideration for all of the children involved as we move forward together.”

Tristan Thompson

NBA player Tristan Thompson welcomed his second child — and first with Khloé Kardashian — True Thompson, in 2018. In December 2021, model Maralee Nichols shared that she had welcomed a son, Leo. Though Tristan initially disputed paternity, he confirmed the child was his in January 2022.

“Today’s paternity test results revealed that I have fathered a child with Maralee Nichols. I take full responsibility for my actions,” he wrote on his Instagram Story. “Now that paternity has been established, I look forward to raising our son in friendship.” He also publicly apologized to Kardashian at the time, as the couple were dating at the time of Leo’s conception.

“Khloé, you do not deserve this. You do not deserve the pain and humiliation I have put you through,” he wrote. “You do not deserve the way I have treated you over the years. My actions certainly do not align with how I see you. I have the utmost respect and love for you. Regardless of what you think. Again, I am so sorry.”

Later that year, a rep for Kardashian confirmed to PEOPLE that the reality star was expecting her second child with the athlete. A source clarified that “the baby was conceived via surrogate before it was revealed to Khloé and the public that Tristan would be having a baby with someone else in December.”

Baby Tatum’s birth was confirmed to PEOPLE in August 2022.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fifth child, Joseph Baena, was born on October 2, 1997, a few days after his youngest child with then-wife Maria Shriver. Baena’s mother, Schwarzenegger, and Shriver’s housekeeper, Mildred Patricia Baena, kept their son’s identity a secret for the first seven or eight years of his life.

“What I did was wrong. But I don’t want to make Joseph feel like he’s not welcome in this world — because he is very welcome in this world,” Schwarzenegger said of his youngest son in his docuseries, Arnold“I love him and he has grown into an extraordinary young man.”

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood had two children, Scott Eastwood in 1986 and Kathryn Eastwood in 1988, with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves, whom he met during a relationship with his girlfriend Sondra Locke.

Clint and Locke had a tumultuous relationship. In April 1989 — more than 15 years after they first met — Clint allegedly put all of Locke’s belongings in storage and changed the locks on their home, according to the Washington Post.

Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton fathered a child with Yvonne Kelly in 1985, while he was still married to his first wife, Pattie Boyd. His daughter Ruth with Kelly was kept secret from Boyd at the time. Her identity was only revealed after Conor, Clapton’s child with Italian TV personality Lory Del Santo, tragically died in a fall. In his 2007 autobiography, he explained how Ruth helped him cope with his grief.

“I got to hold a child again, and be held by a child,” the guitarist said. Ruth has been a tremendous support. I had no idea how much power a child can have on an adult’s life, how much it can make you feel valid, unique, and strong.”

As a child, Ruth had a close bond with the rock star, but the two became estranged from 2015 to 2021 after Clapton demanded that she stop sharing details of his private life on social media.

When she was passed on in 2021 by the Daily MailRuth said she “always checks on him to see how he’s doing.”

Male duck

After Pusha T alleged in his 2018 diss track, “The Story of Adidion,” that Drake secretly fathered a child with French adult film star Sophie Brussaux, the “Hotline Bling” rapper confirmed his paternity of an 8-month-old child on his album Scorpio.

“The kid is mine,” he rapped on the song “March 14.” In the song “Emotionless,” he said, “I wasn’t hidin’ my kid from the world/I was hidin’ the world from my kid.”

In May 2017, TMZ reported that Brussaux had claimed she was three and a half months pregnant with Drake’s child. His reps told PEOPLE at the time that “he does not believe” the child is his. However, TMZ reported a year later that Drake has been quietly “financially supporting” Brussaux and his son, Adonis.

On HBO’s The shop In 2018, Drake said of the circumstances surrounding Adonis’ birth: “We’re in a situation and we’re both equally responsible for it.”

“Now I’m just really excited to be a great dad,” he added. The father and son have been sharing sweet moments, including a twin hairdo, since Adonis debuted on his dad’s social media page in 2020.