Throughout the newest episode of her Keep True podcast, the Bachelor alum opened up a few deeply private chapter in her life, revealing that she as soon as battled addictions to pornography and masturbation.

“Irrespective of how a lot I beloved Jesus, I couldn’t shake that sin. I couldn’t break away from porn and masturbation,” Prewett stated on Tuesday’s episode.

In line with the truth star, her wrestle started in center college after being uncovered to “hookup tradition” by means of media and after watching TV at a buddy’s residence.

“I had already had moments of being interested in issues and having sure emotions or questioning sure issues or fantasizing about sure issues. I had not instructed that to anybody,” she defined. “I had not pursued to do something about that, however I used to be curious, and I used to be about 13 years outdated. I went over to a buddy’s home and her dad and mom weren’t round and he or she turned on this present that was extraordinarily inappropriate.”

That second triggered emotions she hadn’t skilled earlier than.

“I felt want and issues that I had by no means felt earlier than,” Prewett recalled. “However that was one thing that enslaved me and marked me for therefore lengthy.”

The Bachelor Nation star detailed the inner battle she confronted throughout that interval of her life, particularly as somebody who was attempting to reside her life with Christian values.

“I questioned my price and my identification,” she stated. “Each time I gave in to sexual sin, I did not know my goal.”

Prewett says the turning level got here when she leaned into her religion and her group.

“Fortunately, by the grace of God and by the facility of Godly group and other people round me, I’ve been free from porn and masturbation for — I do not even know — 10 years,” she stated.

Madi first rose to fame on Season 24 of The Bachelor in 2020, the place she made it to the ultimate two alongside Peter Weber. Although the pair briefly reconnected after he ended issues together with his fiancée, Hannah Ann Sluss, they ultimately went their separate methods.

She went on to marry Grant Troutt in 2022, and the couple lately welcomed their first baby, daughter Hosanna, in January 2025.