Joni Mitchell: The End

Fans fear the worst as wheelchair-bound singer fights IMAGINARY DISEASE.

TRAGIC folk music icon Joni Mitchell — who suffers from a slew of ills, including a bizarre disease experts say is imaginary — looks like death warmed over, and fans fear the Both Sides Now singer is facing a tragic end.

Guests at Elton John’s 70th birthday bash in L.A. were shocked by the sight of 73-year-old Joni struggling to rise from her wheelchair outside the gala.

The once-slender songbird has ballooned in weight and nearly toppled her assistants as they lifted her up!