Susan Daya has been taking some heat for allegedly luring cancer-stricken Daniel Hauser and his mom, Colleen, from Minnesota to Mexico for alternative treatment.

The California lawyer and yoga instructor was thought to be a family friend when Colleen and Daniel, 13, fled Sleepy Eye, MN, last week and headed west to avoid chemotherapy for Daniel’s Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Chemotherapy, they say, goes against their spiritual beliefs. Daya showed up in Sleepy Eye for at least one medical exam and was the last person seen with the pair before they took off.

Now, the owner of a California movie company who worked with authorities and flew Colleen and Daniel back to Minnesota, says Daya lured the duo from their homestead with promises of treatment in Mexico, but then gave up her mission once federal officials issued a warrant for their arrest.

"She took two people who were naive about the judicial and medical systems and, for self-serving reasons, enticed them to leave Minnesota,” producer Alan Pezzuto told The Minnesota Star Tribune. He said Daya "abandoned them" within a day of their arrival "when the water got too hot for her."

Pezzuto, whose own wife is undergoing breast-cancer treatment, told The St. Paul Pioneer Press that Daya was "seeking the spotlight." Daya last week denied fleeing with the Hausers. 

Meanwhile, doctors are breathing a sigh of relief today over news that Daniel may, after all, undergo chemotherapy, about which the family has now dropped their protests. In return, the state of Minnesota will return custody of Daniel back to his parents. But officials are still leery Daniel could bolt again.

A family friend told CNN, however, the Hausers’ views were now "tilted" in favor of chemo. What likely helped them change their mind were recent tests showing Daniel’s tumor had grown larger and caused painful pressure in his chest. A judge ruled the Hausers must comply with the doctors’ treatment schedule, but Dr. Michael Richards said once chemo and radiation starts to work, the "goal will be to include alternative therapies in which the family is interested, as long as there is not data to suggest that a particular danger exists with any alternative medicine."