For months, North Texas watched the drama at McKinney North High School unfold.

Now the cheerleading scandal is a made-for-TV movie which airs this weekend.

Channel 8 talked with the cheerleading coach who inspired it all.

Michaela Ward says she's nervous about the movie about the cheerleading scandal that brought the national spotlight on suburban cheerleaders, their parents and administrators.

"About half is true, a quarter exaggerated and another quarter is completely made up," she said.

The movie is loosely based on what happened two years ago at McKinney North High School.

It's about the scandalous behavior of five high school cheerleaders who thumbed their noses at authority and got away with it. Ward, the cheerleading coach, eventually blew the whistle.

"All it took was one person to say, 'it's not OK' and now two principals are gone and the district has taken measures so it doesn't happen again and that's a lot to be proud of," said Ward.

Ward sold her rights to the movie but it's come with a price.

In the last two weeks, she says she has received threatening phone calls and text messages, from the mother of one of the so called "fab five."

"The one lady told me not to step on my front porch. She would be my worst nightmare. She told me she made over $200,000 a year and she said she would spend every bit of it to try and ruin my life and my children's," Ward added.

The movie focuses on the cheerleaders' behavior but also on Ward's struggle to get the district to allow her to discipline the girls' bad behavior.

Ward says she knew she had a story to tell. She just never imagined it would come to this.

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