Yikes!! Ouch! Is she just clueless? Unless she is nasty spirited why would she do that unless she didn’t realize that is was embarrassing. If we weren’t speaking in public I would ask you what she said because sometimes when I do that I will hear the comment and it may not sound the same to me as it did to the one who it was said about. Is it possible this is the case?
Oh Gosh – I just remembered – if you were embarrassed in public and didn’t respond, do you realize what a HUGE zchus that is????? You should give a bracha to someone who desperately needs one (maybe yourself even?)
Good for you that you worked on it in any case. Hashem is probably very impressed and you should be too.