'Bachelor' Star Madi Prewett's Husband Opens Up About Years-Long Struggle With Pornography And Drugs

"Bachelor" star Madi Prewett recently opened up about overcoming her addiction to pornography during an episode of her podcast.

However, she wasn't the only person in her family who had to break free of those chains. During a new episode of her "Stay True" show, Prewett's husband, Grant Troutt, candidly revealed he battled a similar addiction.

"[In] 2019, I'm following Jesus. I'm early in my faith, still looking at pornography," Troutt, 29, said on a recent episode titled, "Is God Disciplining Me?"

"[I'm] still occasionally smoking weed, [and] still falling back into all these sins. It's this up and down. It's this three days good, one day bad. It's this shameful, roller-coaster cycle," he shared.

Troutt, however, who is now a pastor at a church in Texas, later explained that one terrifying experience he had with marijuana changed his perspective on drugs entirely.

"One of the last times I ever smoked weed, I had this crazy panic attack [and] thought I was overdosing," he said. "All these moments were happening to me, and as I look back, what that did to me is it scared the heck out of me to not do any drugs. I was like, 'No more.'"

But it wasn't only drugs that Troutt wanted to rid himself of. According to him, after giving up marijuana, the pastor and father of one also decided to take his "sexual sin seriously."

"I was like, 'Lord, I just need you. I got nothing. I want to be dependent on you,'" Troutt said.

Troutt then described a pivotal moment of prayer in his closet, which he implied had changed him forever.

"It drove me to this place where I have nothing but [God]. … I just remember walking with Jesus, [and] he was healing me. It was like he was stripping everything in my life because it was drawing me right into the person of Jesus Christ," he said.

Troutt's confession follows his wife's own recent revelations, as the season 24 "The Bachelor" star previously recalled her introduction to pornography.

"I was about 13 years old," Prewett began her story. "I went over to a friend's house, and her parents weren't around, and she turned on this show that was extremely inappropriate."

From there, Prewett said she began having feelings that were new to her, which led her to live "in secret shame."

"I questioned my worth and my identity. Every time I gave into sexual sin, I didn't know my purpose," she admitted, adding that she was only able to "break free" from the cycle with the help of community members.

"I stopped letting the enemy run my life with living in secrecy and living in isolation," she explained.

And, according to Prewett, being vulnerable about her struggle was one of the best things she could've done.

"Thankfully, by the grace of God and by the power of Godly community and people around me, I have been free from porn and m-sturbation for — I don't even know — 10 years. But that was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long," the reality star revealed.

"It's still a choice for me every single day, even as a married woman, to not return back to the past of my sexual sin addictions," Prewett added. "It's still a choice every single day for me not to choose to lust after things that I see online or to give into a feeling that arises."

During another episode of her "Stay True" podcast, Prewett opened up about some things she's learned about herself since marrying Troutt in 2022, specifically that she's a "reactive" partner.

"That's been my downfall, is when I'm just reactive," she said. "Like, a friend does something or even when I'm in a relationship, someone does something that angers me or frustrates me or it hurts my feelings. When I'm reactive in that moment, that's when my mind is led by sin instead of led by the spirit."

To combat this reactiveness, Prewett revealed she centers herself by practicing what she has branded the "pause and pray."

"You say, 'Holy Spirit, show me where I need to own my part. Holy Spirit, show me how I need to communicate this. How I need to share where I've been hurt,'" she told her listeners. "Make it about yourself instead of making it about the other person, where you're pointing fingers. What I've learned is like, it's never helpful if I'm like, 'You did this and you did that. You this, this, and that.'"