That is why this song is so immense. Few artists can write about those fleeting moments in life, oscillating between the tangential and the conceptual. Mitchell later said it was during that winter in hospital that she became interested in singing. "They said I might not walk again, and that I would not be able to go home for Christmas. I wouldn't go for it. So I started to sing Christmas carols and I used to sing them real loud.... The boy in the bed next to me, you know, used to complain. And I discovered I was a ham." Joni Mitchell and her daughter, Kilauren Gibb, were all smiles and hugs when they got together in 1997. Ida seems puzzled by Kilauren's claim that she did not find out she was adopted until she was 27. "She knew when she was a teenager," she says. "Her friends told her. But maybe the full significance didn't sink in." Kilauren's father, meanwhile, says: "The mistake we made was in trying to say she's not adopted, that she's one of us and let's forget the whole thing and put it away somewhere, because we wanted her to be part of the family." Then he adds: "People are born. They are a life. They belong to nobody."

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Cut to 1988. Redbird meets Annie Mandlsohn while both are studying at York University. "Never tell this to anybody," he told her, "but I lived in the same house as Joni Mitchell; she had a baby and nobody knows." Late last year, Mandlsohn's current boyfriend, Tim Campbell, introduced her to Kilauren Gibb - Campbell, Gibb and Barrington had all grown up together in Don Mills. Gibb showed Mandlsohn the Children's Aid information describing her mother as a Saskatchewan folksinger who had moved to the United States. "That was the key," says Mandlsohn. "I said, 'Kilauren! Your mother is Joni Mitchell!' " It was during Ms. Gibb's visit that the LAPD were called to Ms. Mitchell's home at 1 a.m. on Jan. 3, 2000. Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters touch down at Perth Airport... after cancelling last Australian tour in the wake of drummer Taylor Hawkins' death

Relationship Timeline

Having a baby that nobody knew about has been playing on my mind for more than 30 years, and it's been sheer hell," she said in New York recently. Mitchell remembers giving birth in a Toronto hospital, where "one of the barbaric things they did was they bound the breasts of unwed mothers to keep the milk from coming," she says. Complications, she adds, kept her in the hospital for 10 days with her child. During the early years after the adoption, Mitchell told the Times, she "worried constantly" about the child's health because her pregnancy diet had been "atrocious." In an interview on CBC Newsworld's Pamela Wallin Live - broadcast, by coincidence, on Feb. 19, 1996, Kilauren's 31st birthday - the singer explained that she had no recourse but adoption. "I didn't have a penny," she said. "I had no money for diapers, or a room to take her to. There was no career on the horizon. Three years later, I had a recording contract and a house and a car, but how could I see that in the future?"

X is mentally unstable, an alcoholic, a drug user and an addict obsessed with pornography. She alleges his best friends are criminals and female escorts. And, she alleges, he abused their daughter. But despite the serenity of the outdoors, it was a difficult childhood as Joni's medical problems began at an early age. Tiffany Haddish vows to 'get help' and 'learn balance and boundaries' after second DUI arrest in under two years London Underground driver reveals secret world of Tube slang - but can YOU work out what the phrases mean? Gaz Beadle 'shamed' as his ex Emma McVey admits 'it's been hard' looking after their children six days a week as a single parent while 'trying to heal'White Lotus stars Meghann Fahy andLeo Woodall cozy up while strolling arm-in-arm in NYC... after confirming real life romance Kelly Dale Anderson was given up for adoption shortly after birth and was adopted by David and Ida Gibb. She was raised in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto, and attended private schools and dined in country clubs. Bother’s parents were teachers.