Joni Mitchell: "Woodstock" star makes little progress after aneurysm

In 2015, Mitchell suffered an aneurysm and is still feeling the effects today. But her will to fight her way back to life is unbroken.

Woodstock icon Joni Mitchell (76) has been struggling with the consequences of a brain aneurysm since 2015. In the past five years, she has mainly been concerned with finding her way back to life, as she has now revealed in an interview with "The Guardian".

During this time she was no longer able to play the guitar or the piano. "No, I'm still focused on getting my health back. (…) I've fought my way back from polio and now I'm struggling back again," said Mitchell, who contracted the infectious disease at the age of nine.

"Am a fighter"

The aneurysm in her brain has taken far more from her than the polio did many years ago. For the second time in her life, she had to cope with the stroke of fate in 2015: "I couldn't walk anymore. I had to learn again. I couldn't speak either," said Mitchell. Fortunately, she quickly learned the ability to speak again, only walking continues to cause her difficulties.

"But I'm a fighter. I have Irish blood!" Says the native Canadian, who has both Irish and Scottish ancestry. With nine Grammy Awards and songs like "Woodstock" or "Big Yellow Taxi", Mitchell is one of the most important artists of the 1970s.

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