A former porn addict has proudly opened up about not masturbating for the past ten years—after she got hooked on adult content when she was still at school.
Madison Prewett Troutt, 29, who starred in reality show The Bachelor, was barely in her teens when she was first exposed to explicit content while visiting a friend's house.
Raised in a strict Christian household, she had never encountered anything remotely sexual, and remembers she was left confused and overwhelmed by the new sensations in her mind and body.
It sparked an obsession which ravaged her teenage years, describing herself as being 'enslaved' to porn.
She said: 'My body started feeling things that I had never felt before and I started wondering things that I'd never wondered before and then desiring it and then wanting it and and so I left that time with my friend like genuinely so curious about that and wanting it more.'
It wasn't long before the young Prewett was searching online for more X-rated content—marking the start of a dark period of her life.
Until the age of around 20 she admits she sought out sexual thrills both on and off line, admitting that when she had a boyfriend she 'pushed so many boundaries physically'.
She said: 'That was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long.
'No matter how much I loved Jesus, I could not shake that sin.
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'I could not break free from porn and masturbation. And I would beat myself up and I would be bound by shame.'
Ironically, Prewett said that there were parallels between the show which sparked her sex addiction and The Bachelor—the show which shot her to fame in 2020.
She was runner-up on series 24 of the US reality programme, which sees a troupe of women compete for the love and attention of a good looking hunk.
'Literally everyone was naked and it was like The Bachelor but, like, way worse and everyone was naked and everyone was trying to like fight for this like one woman's attention and and it was all about like sex and sexual relationships,' she said.
Prewett cites the power of prayer and the support of the worshippers at her church for giving her the strength to finally kick her addiction.
Ten years on she still remembers how it felt to 'confess to God' about her 'addiction to sexual sin' and how church elders and other members of the congregation rallied around her as she vowed to clean up her act.
Speaking on her Stay True Podcast on Monday, she said: '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. Obviously that doesn't mean I went from that moment and never struggled again - absolutely not. I continued to struggle.
Madi and her husband of two years, pastor Grant Troutt, welcomed their first child, five-month-old daughter Hosanna Rose Troutt, on January 20 (pictured Wednesday)
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'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.'
She continued: 'Thankfully, by the grace of God and by the power of Godly community and people around me, I have been free from porn and masturbation for — I don't even know — 10 years. But that was something that enslaved me and marked me for fuck so long.'
The mum-of-one, who married her church pastor after failing to find love on TV, added that she believes that the dangers of 'sexual sin' don't just lurk around those watching porn.
She said: 'It's not about just sex - it's anytime you orgasm, it's anytime you get worked up, it's anytime you lust.
'Any time I gave into sexual sin, it never ever ever gave me what I was looking for. But every single time I resisted sexual sin and I pursued God with all of my heart, it always delivered everything my heart desired.
'Sin is sin, and the enemy is crafty and he wants to destroy your life.
'And so he will use whatever he has to to take your soul - so many of us are stuck in sexual sin because we're dealing with the fruit and not the root.
'He's not keeping you from pleasure, he is protecting you from the things that want to rob you of the life that he died to give you.'
Prewett and her husband of two years, pastor Grant Troutt, welcomed their first child, five-month-old daughter Hosanna Rose Troutt, on January 20.
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