90s rocker Billy Corgan has become a father for the third time after he welcomed a baby daughter with his wife.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and his partner Chloe Mendel announced the birth of their newborn, Juno, into the world in ‘the wee hours’ of Tuesday.
The couple, 58, already share Augustus, nine, and six-year-old Philomena, with Chloe, 32, giving birth at their family home in Illinois.
In an interview they announced baby Juno weighed 9lb 9oz and measured 22 inches long.
Billy told People magazine: ‘My wife, Chloé is doing well and recovering, and baby Juno is happy, healthy, and nursing with gusto.
‘We are so touched by all the kind wishes of support and love, and thank those who helped Chloé and baby have such a safe, and peaceful, home birth.’
90s rocker Billy Corgan has become a father for the third time after he welcomed a baby daughter with his wife (Billy pictured in December 2024)
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and his partner Chloe Mendel announced the birth of their newborn, Juno, into the world in ‘the wee hours’ of Tuesday (pictured together in October)
He continued: ‘The kids are absolutely thrilled by their new sister, and being nine and six, they can’t wait till she’s old enough to play.’
The rocker recently admitted he’d given up on his dream of having a family before he met Chloe in 2012.
They married in September 2023 after welcoming their first child in 2015 and second in 2018.
Last year, he revealed that he discusses childhood trauma with his young kids during an appearance on the REINVENTED With Jen Eckhart podcast.
During the interview he revealed that his guitarist father William Dale Corgan once told him that the abuse that he had suffered as a child was ‘good’ because it had ‘made him a better rock star.’
Billy reiterated that it was an actual quote and joked that ‘it’s pretty funny, if you think about it.’
He went on to reflect how his past has had an influence on his own parenting as he explained: ‘I absolutely believe in the concept of generational trauma.
‘I mean, much of what we were taught or not taught or we went through as children — my brother and I — I think was the result of what our parents had been taught or not taught.’
The couple, 58, already share Augustus, nine, and six-year-old Philomena, with Chloe, 32, giving birth at their family home in Illinois (pictured with his son in 2018)
Billy told People magazine: ‘My wife, Chloé is doing well and recovering, and baby Juno is happy, healthy, and nursing with gusto’ (pictured together in Chicago in May 2014)
He said that parenting is a complex thing and that it isn’t exactly ‘simple math’ and added: ‘Even down to the concept of “Yeah, I’m hitting you, but I’m hitting you less than I was hit,” so this is better.’
The president of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) was then asked by the host if he and his wife Chloe have discussed their past struggles and traumas with their children.
Billy responded: ‘We do talk about it occasionally. In fact, I was talking to my son this morning about certain things that are sort of loosely related to what you asked.’
The Zero hitmaker went on to say that his philosophy to parenting is to ‘dole it out where appropriate.
‘For example, I told my children some stories about where my father had beat my brother and I, and my kids being kids turned that into a story that my daddy was bad, like what kids do, like he’s a villain in a superhero movie.
‘We were driving down the road one day and my daughter started saying something about my father being bad or me not liking my father or something, and I said, ‘No, no. I love my dad. I love my father. ‘
Billy stressed the importance of giving children a more balanced sense of conflict instead of it being one sided.
He explained: ‘That you give them — as much as they are capable of understanding at the age of 8 and 5 — let’s call it the quantum aspect of how you can both love and have issues with someone in your life.
‘That it’s not so simple as dividing the world into good guys and bad guys.’