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David Crosby has revealed that Joni Mitchell is "not speaking yet" after suffering from an aneurysm in March.
News of the musician's hospitalisation has been led by rumours and hearsay over the past few months, with a spokesperson being forced to deny several times that she was in a coma.
At the end of last month, it was confirmed that she had suffered a brain aneurysm, and her condition was said to be "very serious."
Now, speaking to the Huffington Post, Mitchell's close friend and fellow musician David Crosby revealed, "Nobody found her for a while. 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…"
He added, "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 hasn't toured in over a decade, largely retiring from the public eye in the late 1990s and blaming it on a condition called Morgellons syndrome - the existence of which is highly contentious. Though she described it to The Daily Mail as feeling as though "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," a study by the CDC concluded that it was most likely a psychological condition.
In the same interview, Crosby reiterated his criticisms of Kanye West, saying "It all stands on what you produce; what you actually put down. Kanye West can't write, sing or play. So I have trouble with him as anything but a poser. Produce? That means he sits in a chair while the engineer does the work. He's a poser! And I’m not backing off it."
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