Suaad Hagi Mohamud was reunited with her 12-year-old son at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Saturday. (CBC)

The lawyer for a Canadian woman who was stranded for three months in Kenya on suspicion of identity fraud, said Suaad Hagi Mohamud is seriously ill and that a Kenyan lawyer had "no authority" to talk about launching a lawsuit on her behalf.

Raoul Boulakia said Mohamud, who flew home to Toronto on Saturday and was reunited with her 12-year-old son, needs urgent medical attention.

"We're trying to figure out what she has," Boulakia told CBC News.

"It could be pneumonia, tuberculosis or a tropical infectious disease," he said. "It's some respiratory problem and it will have to be diagnosed."

Boulakia also dismissed comments by Lucas Naikuni, a Kenyan lawyer, who said in Nairobi on Friday that Mohamud would be taking legal action against the Canadian government, the Kenyan government and KLM.

"He has absolutely no authority whatsoever to make statements like that," Boulakia said, adding that he had written to Naikuni and "told him to stop saying things like that."

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When asked if his client might pursue legal action in Canada, Boulakia would only say, "At this point I want her to get medical care and then I'm going to be having discussions with her."

When she arrived Saturday afternoon at Pearson airport, Mohamud was greeted by a throng of relatives and reporters.

"You can't imagine, I'm really happy to come back, I'm really, really happy to come home," Mohamud told reporters. "I'm glad my own nightmare is over."

Mohamud, 31, made no other comment and was quickly ushered away with two police officers escorting her as people cheered and applauded her.

She had been unable to leave Kenya since May, when local authorities said her lips did not look the way they did in her four-year-old passport photo.

Canadian consular officials there called her an impostor, voided her passport and urged Kenyan officials to prosecute her. She was charged on May 28 with identity fraud.

On Friday — after a DNA test had proved she was who she said she was — a Kenyan judge agreed to drop the charges, which included using another person's passport and being in Kenya illegally.