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.”