Vintage photo of Brad McMath, Joni Mitchell's former boyfriend and father of her kidnapped daughter

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Leonardo DiCaprio's looking fine at 49! Actor suits up to join Killers of the Flower Moon co-star Lily Gladstone at Gotham Awards in New York City after raucous birthday celebrations Though Mitchell kept her secret for decades, a former art school classmate sold the story of her first pregnancy to a tabloid. Although Mitchell had secretly searched for her daughter without success for years, this betrayal by a one-time friend at last led to Mitchell's reunion with her long-lost daughter. Around the same time, Kelly Dale Anderson, now known as Kilauren Gibb, was searching for her birth parents. Her research led her to the unmistakable conclusion that she was the daughter of Joni Mitchell. But despite the serenity of the outdoors, it was a difficult childhood as Joni's medical problems began at an early age. The maze of events begins with Duke Redbird. Now a Toronto CITY TV entertainment reporter, in 1964 he was writing and reading poetry at folk festivals. Redbird moved into a Victorian rooming house on Huron Street, and Mitchell, already pregnant, moved in across the hall. Most of the boarders were broke. "It was a very sad and lonely time for her," Redbird says. "I remember Joni being a very private person. I would hear her singing in that beautiful voice of hers, strumming her guitar behind the closed door of her room."

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Joni has said 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 Real Housewives of Dubai star Caroline Stanbury slammed for getting a 'terrifying' facelift at 47: 'She ruined her beautiful face' At the time I was destitute and there was no way I could take her out of the hospital and into a blizzard, with no job, no roof over my head. There was no way I could take her and there weren’t even foster homes available at that time, because there was such a glut of unwed children. Detectives closed the case after interviewing Ms. Gibb, who did not wish to "file charges for prosecution."

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?"

In a dramatic twist of irony, Joni Mitchell’s career would explode within three years, but by then, the adoption had been closed, and records had been sealed.

I've had pain and joy in my life but nothing like this," Ms. Mitchell said at the time of the reunion. "It's an unparalleled emotional feeling." Looking to lose her virginity in art school, she slept with artist Brad MacMath because he was available – a decision that left her pregnant. Penned two decades before Mitchell's secret was finally exposed in a tabloid newspaper four years ago, Little Green was part private confession, part wishful prophecy. And the "happy ending" hoped for in the song had already begun to unfold. At the age of six months, Kelly - renamed Kilauren Gibb - found a home as the adopted daughter of two teachers, David and Ida Gibb, in the cozy Toronto suburb of Don Mills. Kilauren grew up in a world of private schools and country clubs and tropical vacations. She landed a career as a fashion model. She now divides her time between her longtime home in Los Angeles, and the 80-acre property in Sechelt, British Columbia. In 2006, she said: "LA is my workplace. BC is my heartbeat". This information remained private for most of her career, although she alluded to it in some of her songs, such as 'Little Green' and 'Chinese Cafe'.Even though most of his information wasn’t public, he came to national attention when Joni Mitchell publicly appealed for her missing daughter of thirty years. The Love Story of Brad Macmath and Joni Mitchell In 1996, Ms. Mitchell made a public plea to find her daughter. By then, Ms. Gibb had been searching for her mother as well.