CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Former substitute teacher Mary Beth Haglin is spinning her student sex assault case into a celebrity status.

Haglin was arrested in July for sexual exploitation of a 17-year-old student and has remained adamant that the student seduced her, and school officials were aware of the situation. Haglin, then 23, met the student as a student teacher at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, and the two started a relationship over Facebook in September 2015, The Des Moines Register reports.

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The two began having sex daily in October 2015 – at the student’s home, her home, in their vehicles and at local parks. She sent the boy nude images, he shared them with friends, and two students eventually busted the couple in a car in June. The two students who discovered the relationship posted a video of the encounter on Twitter, according to the news site.

During the relationship school officials investigated rumors, which were initially dismissed as unfounded. Haglin left the school at the principal’s request in May, but was not removed from the districtwide substitute pool and continued to substitute teach at other schools before she admitted to the relationship in an interview with KWWL.

Several school officials involved with the case retired over the summer and the school board agreed to pay them a total of $350,000 in severance bonuses over the next four years, The Gazette reports.

In the months since, Haglin has discussed her plight with Inside Edition and, on Monday, with Dr. Phil’s national talk show.

“The student is the one who seduced me,” Haglin told Dr. Phil. “I am the victim.”

Haglin said soon after she was fired from the school district she took up a job as a stripper.

She spoke about how the student wooed her with handwritten Post-It notes, texts and other romantic gestures, and took advantage of her during a vulnerable point in her life.

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“Trust me, it’s not difficult to be a caring boyfriend,” the student texted, according to phone records Haglin shared with Dr. Phil. “Especially to someone as magnificent as you.”

Haglin sent the student racy and nude images in return.

“You have got to be dumber than a box of rocks to share naked pictures with a 17-year-old boy,” Dr. Phil said.

“I fell head over heals for him,” Haglin said. “We began a physical relationship. We had sex almost daily – in his car, my car, his mom’s house and his dad’s house.”

“I did think it was something I could keep secret,” she said. “The student twisted my brain into accepting this relationship. He did so with such intelligence and such an elevated vocabulary that I was completely duped by the whole façade.”

Haglin also alleged the student threatened her when she attempted to break it off.

“The whole school knew about the relationship,” she said. “When things got way out of control, and I wanted out, he began saying ‘I will light a match and burn your life down.’”

“Because of his threats, I was scared to leave,” Haglin said.

Haglin contends that once the relationship was exposed, the student followed through with his threat.

“Because I was having sex with a student I was fired from my job. I now have to work as a stripper. The name I go by is Bambi,” she said. “Many people see him as the victim and me as the perpetrator. From a psychological standpoint, and from every other standpoint, I feel like I am the victim.

“He did burn my life to the ground,” Haglin said.

According to the Register:

Haglin pleaded not guilty to sexual exploitation by a school employee. Her trial is set to start on Nov. 14, although she has asked to move the trial out of Linn County due to pretrial publicity. …

(Dr. Phil) McGraw offered Haglin help finding counseling and a new career besides stripping.