By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

The former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader, who was charged with having sex with one of her underage students, has spoken out and called the accusations nothing but "high school gossip," and claims her alleged victim will back her up in court.

Sarah Jones is currently under house arrest for 17 weeks while awaiting a first degree sexual abuse trial, and TODAY visited the Covington, Kentucky, home to hear her side of the controversial scandal.

"I am taking it day-by-day, that's kind of how you have to get through these things. Sometimes I take it minute-by-minute," explained the 27-year-old cheerleading captain and English teacher who has been accused of sleeping with a 16-year-old football player at Dixie Heights High School.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Jones allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old high school football player four or five times at her apartment and exchanged numerous text messages with the student, three years after publicly becoming a spokesperson against online bullying.

Currently wearing an ankle bracelet that won't even let her walk as far as the mailbox without beeping, Jones said she tortures herself reading every single news article and every online post about her. "The biggest thing is when people attack my character without knowing the full story," she told TODAY in the interview that aired on Wednesda