How This BACHELOR Alum Overcame Battle With ‘Secret Sexual Sin’

Published: February 13, 2026

By Movieguide® Staff

BACHELOR alum Madison Prewett Troutt opened up about her years-long battle with “secret sexual sin.”

“Around 13, 14, I got introduced to pornography at a young age by a friend,” Prewett Troutt said during an episode of “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.” “That started a long journey and battle for me with porn and masturbation. That created a lot of shame and secrecy in my life.”

She continued, “I lived my life very much in this: ‘I’m saving myself for marriage, I have my virgin card, I’m following God.’ And on the outside it looked like everything was fine, but behind closed doors I was living this double life of living in constant secret sin, secret sexual sin, and not confessing it to anybody, which only led to more sin and more shame, and it felt like this never-ending cycle that I didn’t know how to get out of.”

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The former reality star explained that, once she got to college, she was “able to break free from that addiction” after confessing her struggles to someone.

“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, maybe it was done to you, and it’s been holding you back for so long — and you finally confess that to somebody…confessing that thing immediately, you feel this relief and you feel this freedom,” Prewett Troutt explained.

She added, “That was really what that journey was like for me. Even to this day, having moments of shame popping back up, immediately just confess it and get it into the light and share it with a friend.”

Prewett Troutt previously addressed her pornography addiction on an episode of her “Stay True” podcast, where she admitted it “was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long.”

She has also shared that it was a struggle her now-husband Grant Troutt could identify with, as he engaged in premarital sex.

She said that, while Troutt “wasn’t perfect,” the pair “pursued [purity] individually and together” before they wed in 2022.

“At the altar when we gave ourselves to each other and to God, body, soul and spirit, we had such a joy and such a peace,” she said. “I am so thankful that when Grant had a radical transformation with Jesus, and when he started bringing accountability in his life, he chose to pursue a lifestyle of purity.”

God can set anyone free from sin, just like He did for Prewett Trout and her husband.

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