Madison Prewett opens up about living in “secret sexual sin.”
“Around the ages of 13 and 14, a friend introduced me to porn at a young age. That started a long journey and a battle for me with porn and masturbation. That created a lot of shame and secrecy in my life,” Prewett, 29, said on the Tuesday, Feb. 10, episode. “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast”.
Prewett continued, “I lived my life very much on this: ‘I’m saving for marriage, I’ve got my virgin card, I’m following God.’ And on the outside it looked like everything was going well, but behind closed doors I was living this double life of living in a constant secret sin, a secret sexual sin and not confessing it to anyone, which just led me to more sin and more shame and it felt like this endless cycle that I didn’t know how to get out of.
the first high school The contestant explained that this continued throughout high school, but she finally “confessed this sin” in college.
Madison Prewett is opening up about her week after speaking publicly about her purity beliefs and how she’s overcoming perceived difficulties. “Thank you Jesus. The last two days have been inexplicable,” Prewett, 29, wrote via her Instagram stories on Sunday, June 29. “Repentance. Confessions. Freedom. Worship. So thankful for @tonyaprew @unite_us.” The bachelor (…)
“I was finally able to break free from this addiction and this cycle,” she said. “I think a lot of times we think with our sin, that if we confess it or if we finally tell someone, we’ll be judged, people will think we’re dirty, they’ll think we’re a bad Christian, if we tell, they might not want to be my friend anymore.”
Prewett, who tied the knot with Grant Troutt in 2022, she explained that she felt “lighter” after confessing her “sin”. (Prewett and Troutt welcomed daughter Hosanna in 2025).
“To kill shame is to confess shame,” he added. “It’s to confess it. It’s to say, ‘Hey, the enemy’s kingdom is that of darkness and I’ve been keeping this in the dark too long.’ But the Lord’s kingdom is that of light and I am going to bring this to light. I have to get this out there. I have to tell someone.”
She continued, “What you’ll notice is that most of the time when you share that secret sin or that shameful thing, that maybe you didn’t even do it, maybe it was done to you and it’s held you back for so long, and you finally confess that to someone, you know whether it’s a porn addiction or an abortion or something that someone has taken advantage of sexuality a lot, but they haven’t always taken advantage of you. Many times, and confessing that right away, you feel this relief and you feel this freedom This was really the journey for me, even today, moments of shame come up again, immediately confess it and share it with a friend.
Prewett has previously opened up about her struggle with porn and masturbationadmitting that “this has been a struggle” for her since high school.
“Thankfully, by the grace of God and the power of Godly community and the people around me, I’ve been porn and masturbation free for, I don’t even know, 10 years,” he said on the June 2025 episode of the “Stay True” podcast. “But that was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long.”