Joni Mitchell ‘making good progress’ after stroke and brain aneurysm

Joni Mitchell is ‘making good progress’ after suffering a stroke and a brain aneurysm, says friend Judy Collins.

Updating Mitchell’s fans on her current condition, close friend Collins shared a Facebook post saying that the folk star is ‘walking’ and ‘talking’.

She wrote: “I have just heard from a close mutual friend that Joni is walking, talking, painting some, doing much rehab every day, and making good progress.

“I have another friend who went through something similar- it does take a long time, three years for my friend, who has really totally recovered professionally and personally.”

Collins added: “I will try my best to see our songbird when I am in LA in the coming weeks. So - some good news!!”

Mitchell, 71, suffered a stroke back in May and is thought to have been in rehab ever since.

In June, her one-time partner David Crosby said: “She took a terrible hit.

“She had an aneurysm, and nobody found her for a while. And she's going to have to struggle back from it the way you struggle back from a traumatic brain injury."