@BillRM,
She's said she was talking to the reporter because she was trying to get Zimmerman into psych treatment. He's refused to go and blew up at her when she suggested it. She thought if she went public with some of the things he's been doing--he ODed on pills, put a gun in his mouth, etc., spends days refusing to get out of bed, has thrown her out of her house before, blah, blah, it would spur him into treatment.
She's afraid of Zimmerman, but I can believe she might really be trying to get him some help, and protect herself at the same time, and just doesn't know how to do it. She thinks he misses all of the attention and interaction with the criminal justice system that went on pre-trial and during the trial and lapsed into a severe depression without it.
She wasn't paid by that station, for what she allegedly told the reporter, and the national networks don't pay for interviews. It sounds like that station is trying to force her to give them an interview, by releasing what they claim she told the reporter in dribs and drabs, and none of it has been verified by her, and it may not be accurate, so they may hope she'll come forward to give her side of the story in an actual on-air interview.
If what she's saying is at all accurate, Zimmerman is a mess and really needs psychiatric help. She just didn't know how to deal with him because he's very volatile with her, and not exactly reasonable. She's been trying to get out of the relationship with him for a while.
And Zimmerman's friend Frank Taaffe is also saying he's disturbed and extremely depressed. Taaffe just has a different explanation--that it's PTSD due to guilt over killing Martin, and that's what accounts for the domestic violence.
The consensus seems to be he really needs help and refuses to get it.