You can share anything you wrote, including embarrassing pieces. Before you do, though, dig deep into your mind to find out what motivates you to do it.
Once you made it public, you cannot unshare it.
Do not fool yourself into thinking that you "just shared it with one friend" — a secret, once told, is like a manuscript you sold to a publisher with unlimited editing rights. You no longer have control what will be done with it. If it will be used as you intended, say, as a warning to readers not to do something. Or if some details will be omitted to twist the text, so that it becomes devastating for you.
When you heard an embarrassing story about someone, did you ever ask yourself "I wonder what their motivation was to publish this?"
Everyone will just look at the embarrassing part and be more or less disgusted, depending on the way they view life.
By the way, knowing this is why famous authors who wrote something real bad early in their career will do everything to detract attention from that piece. I know authors who buy every copy of their first book as soon as it appears on any site that sells books which are out of print. No rest for the easily embarrassed.
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