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Joni Mitchell In Coma, ‘Unresponsive’
Joni Mitchell is reportedly in a coma and unresponsive at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she was taken after being found unconscious at her home March 31.
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Arriving at the 2015 Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
According to TMZ.com, the Canadian-born artist is “unable to respond to anyone, with no immediate prospect for getting better.”
It adds that her longtime friend Leslie Morris has filed legal papers in order to be granted conservatorship over Mitchell’s affairs, claiming the singer, painter and poet “has no close relatives who could assume the role.”
The documents, TMZ reports, say she’s “so impaired as to be incapable of being assessed.”
The mercurial Mitchell rose to fame as one of a community of musicians in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon in the mid- to late 1960s, where she shared a house made famous in song by her then-partner Graham Nash.
She penned “Woodstock” after not actually being able to attend the fabled festival because of a television commitment, and went on to record such legendary albums as Blue, Ladies of the Canyon, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Court and Spark, and Hejira.