Originally Posted by
Meatball2 
I am on the fence about this, as I have a very public persona that could be negatively affected by this.
I get it, you're a big shot! That's okay.
Where I first went to AA there were two sets of meetings. No one was supposed to know about them, and obviously they aren't in the meeting lists, but there were "private" invitation-only meetings for rich and public people (you know who they are) and there were meetings for the rest of us people nobody gives a damn about.
My guess is if you discretely ask around you could find a private AA meeting.
Go for it; it sounds to me like you need it...and so does your neighborhood!
p.s. I know all of this is supposedly against the basic principals of AA, and it could be easy to develop resentments over it, but, frankly, I didn't give a rat's ass about how "important" I was; I just wanted to stop drinking.