Was it a AA meeting, or some other kind of therapy where there's a legal expectation of privacy? No. But, in the interest of human decency, one would think that something shared at a prayer breakfast would be self-evidently off the record.
According to her interview, she said it was a private dinner given by Cal Thomas. Perhaps it was also a faith based event, because she obviously spoke. She said there were about 80 people there.
The next morning, at the prayer breakfast, her blackberry started ringing and it was people telling her, her story was written up by a reporter and out there.
It’s pretty slimy to write it up, for sure, but a smart woman should know, no place is truly private anymore. How many sex tapes are out there? And I just read a story about a man being arrested for animal cruelty because some kids taped him killing a coon his dog attacked in his garage.
There is no privacy nowadays. If it’s juicy enough, anything is fair game.