While I don't share her religious beliefs I am impressed that she stood up for her core tenets, the things she believed in before being allured by the orange idol. Atheist I may be, but I do think that honest redemption is possible (not that bs "mistakes were made" so popular in politics). I guess it took the indictment, which turned her into a criminal, to cause her to ask the question "what have I become?" (Maybe Hutchinson's "mirror test" explanation hit home.) She realized that not only did she muck up her own life but would bring shame to her old-time religion.
In the US, as in many countries and cultures, staunch religious practices (along with their rules and consequences for violating them) can make the leaders and their followers look like hypocrites, but this gal seems to have a conscience. Word is she is trying to get Rudy on the side of the angels -- good luck with that one, miss.
But please do not go into politics. Look at what it did to preacher's daughter Sarah Huckabee.
On the other hand maybe it was that old lyric line but our prayer won't kill the bear that hit home.