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Joni Mitchell addresses for the first time her long-gestating biopic which was rumored to star Taylor Swift back in 2012. Mitchell admits she put a stop to the project. "I squelched that!" the 71-year-old Canadian folk rock/jazz singer opens up.

"I said to the producer, 'All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones.' It's just a lot of gossip, you don't have the great scenes," she explains to The Sunday Times, additionally slamming the source material, "There's a lot of nonsense about me in books...assumptions, assumptions, assumptions."

Swift herself said two years ago, "That's actually not confirmed. I wish I could say it's confirmed! But the thing about movies that I've learned is - I've been reading scripts for five years, and you just don't know what ones are going to get greenlit and which ones aren't, so I can't talk about it unless it's the real thing."

Titled "Girls Like Us", the movie was supposed to be directed by Kate Jacobs and scripted by John Sayles based on the book written by Sheila Weller before Mitchell nixed it. "The Newsroom" star Alison Pill was at one point in talks to play Carole King.