Why Joni Mitchell fears she's being eaten alive by bugs from outer space

Daily Mail ^ | 5/8/15 | Leonard

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...If the document filed by Miss Morris paints an uncertain picture of Joni Mitchell’s future, it also hints at the tormented private life of the gravelly-voiced singer, who in her glory years had flings with the Hollywood lothario Warren Beatty and the musician James Taylor, partied with The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and saw her albums, with their confiding, confessional lyrics, go platinum.

Mitchell’s latest medical crisis is just one in a long line of threats to her health. An only child, she was just nine years old when she contracted polio. She defied doctors’ predictions that she would never walk again, recovering after treatment in a children’s hospital, where she sang at the top of her lungs, despite having already started smoking cigarettes — which became a lifelong addiction.

Although she has complained of poor health for decades, it wasn’t until 2010 that Mitchell first said she was suffering from Morgellons, a rare condition widely thought by doctors to be delusional, in which victims believe they are infested with disease-causing fibres and parasites. It was identified only in 2002 by a Pennsylvanian lab technician.

‘I have this weird, incurable disease that sounds like it’s from outer space,’ the singer declared.

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I met Joni when she was still married to Chuck Mitchell nearly fifty years ago.

I shared a number of my open tuning guitar styles with her