Bachelor Nation student Madison “Madi” Prewett He shared his past struggles with pornography and masturbation during an episode of Candid 2025 podcast.
Madi, which ended as runner -up Peter Weberthe season of The bachelor In 2020, married Grant TrullA shepherd, in July 2022. The couple welcomed their first baby, the daughter Hosanna Rose, in January 2025.
Before her Bachelor Station and subsequent marriage, Madi made the decision to pursue a “purity life” after fighting to “free from porn and masturbation” as a teenager.
“Whenever you live in secret, it will only create more sin and only create more shame because it is where the enemy thrives,” he told the listeners of her Podcast “follows true” In June 2025.
Several contestants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette have confessed juicy details about their time in the ABC dating series in the past, especially when it comes to night dates. Hannah Brown, meanwhile, made headlines after revealing that he had sex with one of his four finals during the Fantasy Suite (…)
Continue to shift -you do for some of the honest thoughts of Madi on sexuality and marriage:
“A life of easement”
In an episode of his podcast “Stay True” in June 2025, Madi spread the way he took the moral Porn and masturbation During high school and high school.
“Fortunately, for the grace of God and the power of the divine community and the people around me, I have been free of porn and masturbation because, I don’t even know, ten years,” he said. “But this was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long … No matter how much I loved Jesus, I couldn’t shake this sin. I couldn’t free -me of porn and masturbation.”
Madi looked back to be influenced by music and television programs on “having sex and sticking” for the first time as a 13-year-old.
“He had already been curious about things and having certain feelings or asking certain things or fantasia about certain things. He had not told anyone,” he said. “I had not pursued anything about it, but he was curious and was about 13 years old. I went to a friend’s house and his parents were not around and turned on this program that was extremely inappropriate.”
Madi recalled “feeling things that he had never heard before”, especially the feeling of “desire”. From there, Madi said he began to look for porn, but he rationalized himself because he was not actually “having sex with his boyfriend.”
“It was there I fell. I fought and believed that this lie. This lie led to a life of easement,” Madi emphasized.
“Gray areas”
Madison Prewett on January 13, 2022.
IMAGES AMY SUSSMAN/GETTYMadi told the podcast listeners that his parents’ main rule was “Don’t have sex” Although at that time I knew very little about sexuality.
“The question marks (were) around everything else,” he explained. “ What about all the other things? What about porn and what happens to just cross a little lines with your boyfriend? It’s where I was not clear. These were the gray areas of all the purity that was unclear, that I was not sure. Due to this, I found myself pushing the boundaries and continuing to go beyond what I knew in the heart I wanted to go or who knew that I had to leave.
“Living in isolation”
During his podcast on sexuality, Madi reflected on living in total isolation because he never explained to anyone his interest in porn and masturbation.
“Whenever you live secretly, he will only create more sin and only create more embarrassment because it is where the enemy thrives,” he argued. “I couldn’t free up, until I brought -there were other people, until I stopped stopping the enemy to run my life with the secret and living in isolation.”
Madi confessed that her teenager lifestyle was “so hard for her for so long,” as she felt like she had been “stolen by confidence.”
“He would hit me and be tied with shame because he knew that he loved Jesus and wanted to live a life for Jesus, but he did not know how to wear out -he did not know how to release -me of this sin,” he said. “I questioned my penalty and my identity. Every time I gave a sexual sin, I didn’t know my purpose.”
“A life of purity”
Madi used his confessional podcast to reveal that his husband, Grant, came to his relationship with a completely Different attitude toward sex. (Grant is the son of the telecommunications executive Kenny Tucutwho has been ranked Forbidden‘List of the Richest people in the world In the past.)
“Grant entered the other category (which I) that seemed like” Well, I already had sex, what is the big problem? It’s already part of my story. It’s already part of my life, “Madi told the listeners.” So he remained something he fought with. Continued to have sex with people. “
Bachelor’s student Nation insisted that only after Grant agreed to live “a life of purity” that his belief systems began to align -.
“A radical transformation”
Madi described how Grant suffered a “radical transformation” in his belief system once he let go of his past.
“He began to carry accounts in his life and chose to pursue a lifestyle of purity,” he told his podcast. “It wasn’t perfect. He had moments to heal?
The star of reality confirmed that Grant’s option to “pursue purity” allowed both to advance a commitment.
“We could, on the altar, when we gave each other and God, on the body, to the soul and the spirit, we had a joy and a peace because we knew it was something that we had persecuted individually and together,” he said.
“God can use the bachelor”
Madison Prewett in April 2024.
Pictures of Paul Morigi/GettyMadi was studying to be a shepherd when he made a hearing The bachelor Season 24. He arrived at the ABC program and finally ended as runner-up when Peter proposed Hannah Ann Sluss. (Peter and Hannah Ann were divided after the end of March 2020 because he admitted that he still had feelings for Madi. Peter and Madi met briefly, but they finally decided not to continue a relationship together.)
Said Madi The Christian place In September 2021 he joined The bachelor hoping to encourage other Christians to expand their horizons.
“Not only did it see that I learned a lot and grew a lot, but really for everyone who God spoke and encouraged through that, he was one of the most fantastic things to say,” God can use someone like me, God can use something like Bachelor to bring glory to his name because he is the great thing he is, “he said.
A “modern Esther”
Madi referred to Ester’s biblical story to describe what meant to share his faith The bachelor. (In the Bible, Esther was a Jewish woman who got up to become a queen of Persia and used her power to save her people from persecution.)
“I want people to understand that just as Esther; he had to unleash -he had to overcome the labels, he had to keep himself with courage even when he probably was so scared,” he said The Christian place. “He had to go against the grain even though there may be -I want to see that modern sthers in the world today rise and say,” This is who I am, not who you tell me who I am. This is who I am because it is the one who says I am. And I will walk with confidence. I will walk in conviction; I’m going to walk with a courage. “
“The male brain”
Madi and Grant were married in October 2022. Madi said exclusively Use weekly In April 2023 Move with grant He created some unexpected challenges.
“I didn’t have any siblings, so I’m just learning the male brain,” he joked. “I am like,” wait. That’s how is this? Is this what happens to your head? “Honestly, in general, just being around a male (it’s new): I’m so used to being around women all the time.”
She continued: “I lived with my best friend before that for two years and then living with my sisters. This has only been fun, to know how different the brain of a man and the woman and our different expectations.”
“How to communicate –S”
While chatting with Us By 2023, Madi acknowledged having to overcome some communication problems in the first days of his marriage.
“I think during the first month, I was not the best in learning to communicate my expectations and, therefore, I would only have these expectations and it is like:” Well, you never told me! “And I am like” well, this is a good point, “he said.” We are only learning to communicate, you know, (ours) wishes, needs, expectations. “
The biggest gift
When the couple approached the four months of their wedding in April 2023, Madi suggested that the newly married to “grow and learn so much” every day.
“It’s really my best friend in the world,” Madi shared Us. “I mean, we are four and a half months and, therefore, we are still learning a lot. But we are so grateful that we have such a good community around us. We have mentors and people who look at us constantly ask ourselves, you know and ask them to pray for us and encourage ourselves. So we are very grateful to have good people around us, while we are learning and growing in our own marriage.”
“My best friend”
Madi offered an update on the most rewarding aspects of his marriage as he updated Bachelor Nation In April 2024.
“(I love) everything about (marriage),” he called. “Grant is really my best friend and I just love to do every day of life with him.”
Madi added: “Life can be so busy, but I try to be in the moment as much as possible and enjoy where I am.”
