Bachelor alum Madi Prewett reflects on overcoming a 's*xual sin' after being 'enslaved by her fascination'

Bachelor alum Madi Prewett is opening up about her past. In an episode of her Stay True podcast, the former reality television personality spoke candidly about overcoming a “s*xual sin”, and how she relinquished her addiction to p*rn and m*sturbation. Ultimately, Prewett revealed that God helped her see the light and that religion has played an instrumental role in her journey:

“This has been a struggle. This has been a huge part of my testimony, something I’ve struggled with since middle school. And thankfully, by the grace of God, and by the power of Godly community and people around me, I have been free from p*rn and m*sturbation for — I don’t even know — 10 years.”

Madi Prewett continued,

“That was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long. That was something I felt like I could not break free from. No matter how much I loved Jesus, I could not shake that sin. I could not break free from p*rn and m*sturbation. And I would beat myself up and I would be bound by shame.”

Ultimately, in her eyes, however,

“confessing to God and confessing to other believers set me free from the addiction to s*xual sin.”

Madi Prewett opens up on past

One thing is clear: opening up about her struggles has been vital to Madi Prewett, who credits the communal backbone of religion as the source of her strength:

“As soon as I said the thing that I was so scared to say, I immediately felt free. Immediately, something shifted. Something happened when I spoke what was in the dark, and I brought it into the light. Something shifted, something happened.”

Prewett continued,

“Obviously that doesn't mean I went from that moment and never struggled again — absolutely not. I continued to struggle. But as I brought it into the light and I brought other people into it, I then created an atmosphere where my sin was brought into the light, people were aware of it, and they then could hold me accountable.”

Religion admittedly warped Madi Prewett's views on s*x from an early age. “S*x was a big no-no” for her based on her family’s values, but she still had questions about “all the other stuff,” as she puts it:

“I didn't have clarity. Those were the gray areas of this whole purity thing that I was not clear on, that I was not certain about. And so because of that, I found myself continuing to push boundaries and continuing to go further than I knew deep down in my heart that I wanted to go or that I knew I should go.”

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