Madi Prewett is clarifying her past comments.
Two weeks after sharing that her "favorite thing” is being a “submissive wife” to husband Grant Troutt, the Bachelor Nation alum responded to the negative reaction she received from listeners.
“It just kind of grieved our hearts and my heart that there wasn’t context around it,” Madi said alongside Grant on the Dec. 14 episode of her Stay True podcast. “If you don’t explain what the Bible is saying and give context to it, then you just say that word flippantly, it can be received in a really hurtful way. So we just want to say sorry.”
After all, the 29-year-old admitted to her listeners that she understands some of them associate the word “submit” to “abuse” because of “things that have happened to you or things that you’ve seen around you.”
“When you hear that word, you think of it meaning that if you’re a woman, that it means oppression,” she continued, “and that you have no voice and you are silenced and you are controlled. When you hear that word, I think it can strike a lot of different feelings.”
Madi—who shares daughter Hosanna, 10 months, with Grant—added, “That is in no way of how I meant it of what the Bible is saying nor in how we live. Our marriage dynamic is not like that in any way.”
In fact, the Bachelor star—who competed on Peter Weber’s season in 2020—went on to share what she and Grant mean when using the word “submissive” in the context of marriage “roles.”
“It’s not exercising this dominant power and authority,” Madi said. “It doesn’t mean that the wife is weak or passive or has no voice or is not equal with the husband. That’s not at all what submission means. Nor is it what we believe submission means when it’s talking about that in the Bible.”
Grant—who tied the knot with Madi in October 2022—also referenced specific passages from the Bible found in the book of Ephesians, which he believes lays out the “blueprint for godly, biblical marriage.”
“It starts off with two verses to the wife and then there’s about six or seven verses to the husband,” he explained. “In those two verses to the wife, it says, ‘Wives submit to your husbands.’ That’s where that word comes from.”
Using that framework, Madi sees Grant as “the spiritual leader of the home,” but clarified that does not mean he is “oppressive or domineering.”
“Grant is the provider and protector of the home,” she said. “I get to come under his care in a way that’s not like, ‘Oh, I have to,’ but in a way where I feel safe.”
She added, “For me, there’s this respect and this honoring that I give Grant, not because I have to, [but] because it’s the way in which God calls us to and in the way that I truly have found to feel the freest and the most content in our marriage.”
In the end, Madi considers her submission to mean she has “honor” and “respect” for Grant and that the pair “have equal rights.”
“Not one person is more important than the other, not one person has a bigger voice than the other, not one person has the dominating authority over the other,” she said. “We have the same rights. We just have different roles.”
“What God calls for when you get married is there to be a laying your life down for one another, a service to one another,” Madi concluded. “You’re serving the other person. You’re not just thinking about yourself all the time.”
While Madi and Grant responded to backlash for her use of the word “submissive,” it’s not the first time their comments have raised eyebrows. Read on to see what else the pair have said over the years.
Controversial Parenting Choices
Madison Prewett and husband Grant Troutt shared that they would be spanking their daughter Hosanna—whom they welcomed in January 2025.
Madison said on their Stay True podcast in July 2025 that while some people choose to discipline with time outs, she’s looking to the Bible for advice, noting that it encourages spanking: “It says ‘with a rod.’”
But the Bachelor alum—who competed on Peter Weber’s season in 2020—made sure to clarify that any corporal punishment would be done “in a really loving way.”
“Like, ‘Hey sweetheart, do you know why you’re being disciplined? Mommy does not want to discipline you. Mommy does not enjoy having to spank you,’” she explained. “But there are consequences to disobedience.”
Addicted to Porn & Masturbation
Madison revealed in June 2025 that she had an "addiction to sexual sin" and had been struggling with pornography since middle school.
"That was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long,” she said on her Stay True podcast. “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.”
She explained that she would “beat myself up” and often felt “bound by shame.”
But after years of struggling, she was able to break free from the addiction. "Thankfully, by the grace of God, and by the power of Godly community and people around me,” she said, "I have been free from porn and masturbation for 10 years.”
Grant’s Premarital Sexual Relations
Madison wasn’t the only one who struggled with her sexual desires, as prior to the couple’s courtship and marriage in 2022 Grant had partaken in premarital sex.
Madison explained that after he lost his virginity, he felt that he “already had sex, what’s the big deal?”
“So that continued to be something he struggled with,” she said on the Stay True podcast in June 2025. “He continued to have sex with people.”
But Grant later had a “radical transformation with Jesus” and made sure to “bring accountability into his life.”
“He choosed to pursue a lifestyle of purity,” Madison added. “He wasn’t perfect. Did he have moments of falling short? He did. But he choosed to pursue purity.”
Home Catastrophe That Was Slowly Killing Them
After tying the knot in 2022, the couple’s first year of marriage wasn’t just filled with love—but something even more deadly.
“Every time we were in our house, we would feel all these symptoms like nausea, headaches, fatigue,” Madison recalled on the Stay True podcast in August 2025. “We knew something was off because as soon as we would leave our house, we would feel so much better.”
The couple were tired of feeling sick and called a specialist to check the house. When he arrived, he immediately noticed a methane gas leak in the home caused by the couple’s fireplace, which they hadn’t realized needed to be turned off manually when not in use.
“We had not turned it off since we moved into the house,” Madison confessed. “It had been on for three months straight.”
Madison and Grant said they were lucky the methane leak wasn’t worse—and that they hadn’t lit a candle, which could have caused the house to blow up.
“You also couldn’t smell the gas,” she added. “You couldn’t see it, yet it was affecting us and slowly killing us.”
Traumatizing Time on The Bachelor
Prior to finding love with Grant, Madison had tried her luck on season 24 of The Bachelor. And while she was the runner up for Peter’s rose behind Hannah Ann Sluss, Madison admitted that she had a rough time during production.
“It was traumatizing,” she shared on the Unplanned Podcast in August 2025. “ I lost like, 20 pounds.”
And the reality star has had trouble looking back at her time on the series.
“I don’t even know if I watched my season all the way through, I’ll be very honest,” she said. “I very much removed myself from all things Bachelor. Even to this day, I really don’t talk about it a ton.”