# Joni Mitchell found unconscious, rushed to hospital **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474 "2015-04-01T03:35:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/1 "2015-04-01T03:35:27Z")
[Story](http://variety.com/2015/music/news/joni-mitchell-hospitalized-1201463950/) > [@](#): > > Legendary folk singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday after being found unconscious at her L.A. home. > > \ > > A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed that paramedics responded to an emergency 911 call on Mitchell’s street in Bel Air at about 2:30 on Tuesday, but was unable to confirm her condition. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/2 "2015-04-01T03:42:42Z")
From one piece of billion-year-old carbon to another, I hope she’s OK. And if she’s not, I guess I’ll see her in the garden. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/3 "2015-04-01T04:53:37Z")
We are stardust. We are golden. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/4 "2015-04-01T04:59:02Z")
Good luck, Joni. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/5 "2015-04-01T20:10:48Z")
She is awesome Recent NY Mag cover: [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/1b/02/eb/1b02eb661ce60005ed0ce294931411de.jpg](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/1b/02/eb/1b02eb661ce60005ed0ce294931411de.jpg) She is Saruman (I keed) I’m sure she’ll be okay. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/6 "2015-04-01T20:28:31Z")
One article I read reporting this called her “reclusive”. It included a picture of her at a recent Grammy related event. Yeah, recluses show up at Grammy events, do magazine cover stories, etc. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/7 "2015-04-01T20:44:20Z")
She is “reclusish.” That defines a person who doesn’t give a lot of interviews but still ends up on magazine covers sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/8 "2015-04-01T20:57:01Z")
Yeah, I think ‘private’ would have been a better word. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/9 "2015-04-01T22:54:26Z")
tv news says awake and in good spirits. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/10 "2015-04-01T22:56:23Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > She is “reclusish.” That defines a person who doesn’t give a lot of interviews but still ends up on magazine covers sometimes. I hope she’s okay. The article in our local paper says she doesn’t perform because she says she has “Morgellon’s Disease”. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/11 "2015-04-01T23:08:56Z")
She self-diagnosed as a sufferer of _Morgellons_ syndrome. It’s a psychosomatic delusion that sufferers imagine that fibers are coming out of their skin, and the fibers are parasites. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/12 "2015-04-01T23:31:15Z")
I saw that issue of New York magazine. I was appalled by the way she looked, a dozen years older than her actual age which is only 71. I didn’t foresee her collapse but I’m not at all surprised by it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/13 "2015-04-01T23:36:38Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > She self-diagnosed as a sufferer of _Morgellons_ syndrome. It’s a psychosomatic delusion that sufferers imagine that fibers are coming out of their skin, and the fibers are parasites. Most of us just call that “a flashback”. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/14 "2015-04-01T23:58:01Z")
How did they “rush” her? Ambulance or Big Yellow Taxi? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/15 "2015-04-02T00:11:14Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > She self-diagnosed as a sufferer of _Morgellons_ syndrome. It’s a psychosomatic delusion that sufferers imagine that fibers are coming out of their skin, and the fibers are parasites. Yikes. That is a very specific syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/16 "2015-04-02T00:16:25Z")
I hope she’ll be okay and I _really_ hope it isn’t lung cancer. She’s been a heavy smoker since she was a little kid and regarded tobacco as something almost holy. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/17 "2015-04-02T01:39:31Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > I hope she’ll be okay and I _really_ hope it isn’t lung cancer. She’s been a heavy smoker since she was a little kid and regarded tobacco as something almost holy. As far as I have been able to detect, this is the first mention of what I suspect is going on with Joni. I’ve heard those stories about her and that was the first thing to cross my mind when I saw those early reports. They seem to be avoiding what to me is obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/18 "2015-04-02T03:48:08Z")
Poor woman. Morgellons sounds like living hell. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/19 "2015-04-02T11:57:59Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I saw that issue of New York magazine. I was appalled by the way she looked, a dozen years older than her actual age which is only 71. I didn’t foresee her collapse but I’m not at all surprised by it. New York Magazine article from Feb 2015: > **[Joni Mitchell, the Original Folk-Goddess Muse, in the Season Seemingly...](https://www.thecut.com/2015/02/joni-mitchell-fashion-muse.html)** > > The face of Hedi Slimane's spring campaign for Saint Laurent Paris has never been an easy fashion idol. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474/20 "2015-04-02T13:08:42Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > She self-diagnosed as a sufferer of _Morgellons_ syndrome. It’s a psychosomatic delusion that sufferers imagine that fibers are coming out of their skin, and the fibers are parasites. The general claim is that the fibers are _produced_ by parasites, by another sort of microorganism known/unknown to science, or something diabolical from a secret government project. [Joni Mitchell’s website](http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2244) hosts an article by someone speculating that environmental toxins cause Morgellons (the CDC study the article refers to essentially concluded that the ailment is psychosomatic). It’s sort of ironic to be concerned about pseudo-environmental toxins and simultaneously be a smoker. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-mitchell-found-unconscious-rushed-to-hospital/716474.md?page=2)