I'm finally clear and it had nothing to do with Scientology.
:)
She used to have a nice place and a good job. Now she has no place (lives in a commune house with other Scientology freakazoids) and had to take a part time job so she could give more time to the cult.
She was only a casual friend to my wife and I but we know other people that knew her from childhood that gave up trying to get her to leave the cult because she was so adamant that they back off and leave her alone. The result has been that she has been left alone by her friends for years, and now she is in too far to leave.
Scientology is a dangerous thing and should be outlawed. Anyone who reads Margery Wakefields diary knows their "Church" scam is just that...a scam!!