@ mickey, I think it's about time that you go for the confrontation.
She can't avoid you for a lifetime, and if it was a really good friend, she doesn't want to avoid you forever.
I am going to call her in a few days if I don't hear from her, but considering a few other circumstances in her life right now, I'm just going to let her be.
If you hear thjat a really close friend has said something stupid about you, your first reaction is an angry one.
Actually, when someone tells me something that someone else said my reaction is to shrug and say, "No offense, but that's secondhand knowledge. so I don't believe it by default."
I'll end up asking the person if they said that, but I won't be mad about it.