This is a paid advertisement from BetterHelp Therapy Online.

When you're at your best, you can do great things, but you can't be at the top of your

game all the time.

Working with a therapist can get you closer to the best version of you.

BetterHelp can provide access to over a thousand mental health professionals with a wide variety

of expertise.

Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com slash daily pod.

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is The Daily.

Today, the firing of a professional cheerleader has drawn attention to an industry that seemed

to be operating outside the MeToo movement.

Now, it may have no choice but to be drawn into it.

It's Wednesday, April 18th.

Tell me about this thing that happens every year.

These tryouts for the Saints cheerleading team.

So, tryouts usually take place around April about the end of April.

My colleague, Annie Brown, recently spoke to Bailey Davis, a former cheerleader for the

New Orleans Saints.

My mom was a dancer in the Super Bowl halftime shows when she was my age.

So she was back up for the Beach Boys, Hank Williams Jr.

Well, found out she was pregnant with me after Super Bowl in 1995.

And so ever since I was little, I was always around the Saint-Satians going to practices.

...