The story reads like a fairy tale. But the tale is beginning to show some tarnish. Mitchell, who is twice divorced, has not just gained a daughter, she has inherited an entire family, innocents who have found themselves in the spotlight at a time of tremendous emotional upheaval. Losing Kilauren to her birth mother "was our greatest fear," adoptive mother Ida Gibb told Maclean's last week. "It was a nightmare that this would happen to us when she was little and when she was a teenager. Now, it is easier to take. But it's still hard." Joni Mitchell and her daughter, Kilauren Gibb, were all smiles and hugs when they got together in 1997. At times she couldn’t wear clothing as she continually felt that she was being 'eaten alive', and was unable to leave her house for several years. Sometimes, she felt her legs cramping up so much that she could not walk and had to crawl across the floor instead. While her daughter - who was renamed Kilauren Gibb - had already tried searching for her biological parents, the pair finally met in 1997 after medical and adoption records linked them up.

Joni Mitchell and Brad Macmath - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos list. Help us build our profile of Joni Mitchell and Brad Macmath! X also states in the Children's Lawyer questionnaire that Ms. Gibb "has painted me, to my complete disgust as an intravenous drug user, a potential pedophile and she even endeavoured to question my paternity."Overnight, Mitchell’s fame eclipsed the other popular female singers of the day, mainly Aretha Franklin, Carole King and Janis Joplin. FÍted by critics and fans alike, two of the greatest performers of the time, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, asked to cover her songs, and her gigs were instant sell-outs. Allegations of this nature that do not raise the concerns of either the child welfare system or the police, brings serious question to the credibility of the accuser, and raises the spectre of deliberate false allegations being made to eliminate the paternal family of a child," Ms. Malenfant states in a letter to the office.

There was another surprise for Joni, as Kelly had brought her 4-year-old son Marlin with her. What is Kelly’s relationship with her mother like now? Talk about the world's best job! A DOUGHNUT SCIENTIST reveals how she is creating a healthier future for bakery...Little has been known about Ms. Gibb since the reunion. But documents filed in court portray her as part of a tumultuous, relationship with Mr. A book and a view of clouds from above inspired Joni Mitchell to write Both Sides, Now. Beyond that, she contemplated the contradictions and duality of life, along with the intangibility of fleeting moments, in this famous song. Joni opens up about her suffering in the intimate biography written by David Yaffe which richly details the Canadian's life and is set for release on October 17.

Tommy Fury fails to mention fiancée Molly-Mae Hague as he pays tribute to their daughter Bambi on return to the UK after partying in Abu Dhabi Joni Mitchell was born as Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort MacLeod, Alta., and raised in Saskatoon. While studying art at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, she met her daughter's father, photographer Brad MacMath. She became pregnant in 1964 and moved to Toronto. 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. I'm a Celeb hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly give health update on Grace Dent as viewers praise show for stepping in after food critic quit showLouise Malenfant, a family advocate with Edmonton-based Parents Helping Parents, has recently taken on Mr. Hollywood plastic surgeon reveals the celebs who he thinks have had wonky surgery secretly corrected

In fall of 1964, Mitchell became pregnant by her ex-boyfriend Brad MacMath, and was forced to give her daughter up for adoption because she was too poor to raise her. Writing about her song , "Moon at the Window", Mitchell said, "My daughter's father left me three months pregnant in an attic room with no money and winter coming on and only a fireplace for heat. The spindles of the banister were gap-toothed fuel for last winter's occupants. He left behind a doodle of a pregnant woman seated at a window, looking at a crescent moon and on it he wrote, 'The thief left it behind, the moon at the window.' The song, other than this Zen saying, has nothing to do with that incident."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!' "