Joni Mitchell is Expected to Make Full Recovery After Brain Aneurysm

Ever since Joni Mitchell met the unfortunate fate of suffering a brain aneurysm, endless comments have been spewed through word of mouth and the Internet-two mediums that are capable of delivering information like a game of telephone. After a friend of Mitchell's, David Crosby, made claims that she was not speaking, the singer's conservator, Leslie Morris, put rumors to rest.

In an updated statement posted to Joni Mitchell's official website, Morris confirmed that the 71-year-old singer did, in fact, suffer a brain aneurysm but denies David Crosby's statement that "she is not speaking yet."

"Joni did in fact suffer an aneurysm. However, details that have emerged in the past few days are mostly speculative. The truth is that Joni is speaking, and she's speaking well. She is not walking yet, but she will be in the near future as she is undergoing daily therapies. She is resting comfortably in her own home and she's getting better each day. A full recovery is expected," the statement reads.

Crosby revealed that Mitchell suffered an aneurysm in May and she was hospitalized after being found unconscious in her home. "Nobody found her for a while," he told the Huffington Post. "She took a terrible hit. To my knowledge she is not speaking yet...She's going to have to struggle back from it the way you struggle back from a traumatic brain injury...She's a tough girl, and very smart. So, how much she's going to come back and when, I don't know and I'm not going to guess."

Mitchell and Crosby's friendship has been budding since the 1960s. "I love her," he told Huff Post. "She's probably the best of us - probably the greatest living singer-songwriter."

Since entering a Los Angeles hospital on May 26, Mitchell's health updates have been few and far between. Days after her admission, an official statement read, "Joni remains under observation in the hospital and is resting comfortably. We are encouraged by her progress and she continues to improve and get stronger each day."

Since 2007's Shine, Mitchell has laid low within the music industry, not touring since the late 1990s since she suffers from a rare condition called Morgellons disease. "Morgellons is constantly morphing," she explained to the Daily Mail. "There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life."

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