Should I apologize?

[Dionysus]

I felt a distance between me and lot of members since last winter. But, I couldn't find out the root of the indifference. I talked to a friend last Saturday about it, who's not even in my GLO. However, she knows a lot about what is and was going on.

She brought up an issue that never even crossed my mind. See, year before last we had a LOT of drama in our chapter, to make things worse we weren't even a real chapter yet, we were a petitioning group. So, last fall a lot of members left because of the BS. Leaving only about 8 of us left. Eventually 3 of those 8 left. After that, we got like 12 new members.

One of the five old members, was a class A drama queen (she's gone now)! She was very unhappy about they way some of the new members were acting. She didn't try much to hide it. Because we were pretty good friends at that time and I knew she was a drama queen, I appeared to be by her side, though at that time I disagreed w/ a lot of things she said. I liked the new members a lot and was very friendly to them WHEN SHE WASN'T AROUND. But, when she was around I kind of ignored them, I didn't want to piss her off by appearing too friendly. There also were a few other things that I shouldn't have done when I was around her.

To sum up, that person quit around Christmas, and we stopped talking to each other. I was kind of relieved and tried to put all of that behind me.
Since then half of those new members also left and those remaining left I kind of have trouble bounding with plus some of the newer members since winter. My friend told me that I was guilty by association w/ that ex-friend, and that's why I might feel some coldness.

She told me that I should apologize. I think not, 1. Because about 100% of the stuff my ex-friend forcasted turned out to be true. 2. Most of those new members from last fall are gone, however they very close with some current members and come around on special functions. Should I apologize?