Do we know if that was the only part of the process or was it the last stage of the transformation? She may have already had her visit to Kniles and stripping away her source may have been the removal of her final line of defence against the whole process. I mean I dunno, I'm just speculating, but I'm guessing the torture chamber was a significant part of the process, as Wendigo's now deleted dialogue about the subject also indicated.

J'aime le fromage.