During an episode of Candace Cameron Bure’s podcast, Prewett—the runner-up of season 24 of the long-running dating show—recalled her earlier experiences living a “double life” as a result of what she labeled as her relationship with sexual sin.
Madi Prewett shared that she didn’t start living an authentic life until she entered college, where she was in a position to break “free” from her addictive “cycle.”
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Madi Prewett Opens Up About The Young Age She Began Consuming NSFW Content
Prewett has been open about her Christian faith before, and while speaking with “Full House” alum Bure, she shared much more about her spirituality.
Through the conversation, Prewett was candid and spoke a few deeply personal issue that she said began in her teenage years.
“Around 13, 14 I got introduced to pornography at a young age by a friend and that began a protracted battle for me with porn and masturbation,” she told Bure. “And that created loads of shame and secrecy in my life.”
For Prewett, fighting her addiction to pornography was difficult, largely as a result of how she presented herself to the surface world.
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“And on the surface, it looked like every little thing was superb. But behind closed doors I used to be living this double lifetime of living in constant secret sexual sin and never confessing it to anybody,” she said.
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Madi Prewett Says Her Addiction Brought Her ‘Shame’
Prewett, who has been married to her husband Grant Troutt since 2022, later told Bure that her addiction to pornography only brought her “sin and shame,” something she couldn’t overcome until college.
“It wasn’t until college after I really confessed that sin and the shame from that sin for the primary time,” she said. “And I got free from it, and I used to be in a position to break free from that addiction and that cycle.”
Prewett stated that she felt much “lighter” after opening up about her sexual sin. “I felt freer it was the alternative of the lies that Devil was whispering in my mind.”
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Madi Prewett Is Still Learning To Live In The ‘Light’
As Prewett’s emotional conversation with Bure continued, the mother of 1 added that being honest about her addiction with those closest to her helped her learn that life with God was a judgment-free zone.
“That was really what that journey was like for me,” she said. “Even to today, having moments of shame popping back up, immediately just confess it and get it into the sunshine and share it with a friend.”
Prewett previously opened up about her struggle with pornography during an episode of her own show, “Stay True,” in accordance with a report from The Blast.
Through the episode, Prewett stated that her addiction to sexually explicit material caused more harm than good.
“I questioned my price and my identity. Each time I gave into sexual sin, I didn’t know my purpose,” she shared.
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Also, during that episode, Prewett echoed a sentiment just like the one above, revealing that even today she chooses to walk in the sunshine fairly than retreat when things get hard.
“It’s still a selection for me each day, whilst a married woman, to not return back to the past of my sexual sin addictions,” Prewett explained. “It’s still a selection each day for me not to decide on to lust after things that I see online or to present right into a feeling that arises.”
Prewett’s Husband, Troutt, Shared His Own Struggles
Prewett is not the just one who has had to withstand difficult urges, in accordance with The Blast. On her podcast, Prewett spoke along with her husband about his own struggles—something he described as a “shameful, roller-coaster cycle.”
Troutt admitted to smoking marijuana and being hooked on pornography before something clicked, prompting a deeply personal experience along with his faith.
“It drove me to this place where I even have nothing but [God]. … I just remember walking with Jesus, [and] he was healing me. It was like he was stripping every little thing in my life since it was drawing me right into the person of Jesus Christ,” he said.
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Prewett Raised Eyebrows After Sharing She’d ‘Spank’ Her Daughter
In one other episode of her podcast, Prewett discussed the unconventional way she and Troutt planned to parent their daughter, Hosanna.
“We’ll [spank her], on the record, since the Bible clearly says, ‘Folly is sure up in a baby, but discipline drives it distant,’” Troutt said, to which Prewett added, “It also specifically says discipline with a rod. … Well, some people could say, ‘You may discipline them with time-outs.’ Hold on, it says with a rod.”
Prewett said that while she didn’t wish to discipline her daughter, she would teach her that there have been “consequences to disobedience.” She added, “And that’s what [my husband is] saying is, there are consequences to our sin. There are consequences to disobedience.”
The response to Prewett’s comments was swift, with one user asking the truth star, “What commandment did I miss?”
One other wrote that spanking children was proven to not work, while a 3rd questioned whether the Bible was the suitable source for parenting advice.
“The bible was written at a time before childhood psychologists existed, and research was done,” they shared.