I feel bad for her in that way, too. I felt lucky when I had my wreck that it was a big news day here and I didn't get on the news. A friend of mine was on the news after getting caught going the wrong way down an interstate. She claims to have been badly medicated for her bi-polar but think of how many people saw her on the news, she was on twice.
Everyone where I work now knows about my drinking and my DUI, and it is helpful but also really annoying at times. I work at a church that is set up for recovering people, got the job while attending an AA meeting there, and I suppose it has been helpful during this time of early sobriety. In my next job, I am going to be more careful of who knows that I am an A in recovery. Not that I am ashamed, but I don't think everyone out there lives in God's world.