Madison Prewett Troutt Shares How THE BACHELOR was God’s Will for Her

Published: April 8, 2024

Madison Prewett Troutt Shares How THE BACHELOR was God’s Will for Her

By Movieguide® Contributor

Being on THE BACHELOR was not something Madison Prewett Troutt ever planned for, but through events that were out of her hands, God showed her that it was His plan for her.

“I was working in the foster care and adoption system, and I was really having a hard time in the season that I was in,” Troutt shared on her “Stay True” podcast, “but trusting that God was preparing me for something. And I remember I was leading this small group with a couple of friends, and it was all on relationships, and throughout leading this small group, I kind of navigated through some different seasons myself. Like home girl was about to get engaged and then was dating and then went to being single, and I’m like, well guys, I’m just trying to you know be authentic.”

During Troutt’s season of THE BACHELOR, Movieguide® reported:

Madison Prewett, 23, declared on Monday night’s episode of THE BACHELOR that she is “saving herself for marriage” because of her Christian faith. The faith-filled statement is unusual, as most contestants on the show indulge in pre-marital sexual activities.

“Faith is more than just this passed down thing to me, it’s literally my whole life and all of who I am,” Prewett told Bachelor Peter Weber on their one on one date in Peru.

While in the small group, a few of her close friends told her she should go on THE BACHELOR. She told them she “will never” go on the show. However, her friends sent in an application for her and didn’t tell her.

So, on an ordinary day when Troutt was at the gym, she got a call from ABC.

“I remember being so confused. I thought it was a prank call…I was like, ‘I didn’t apply for your show, and why are you asking me to come on?’” she said.

“I think you got the wrong girl, and she goes on, and she’s like telling me all these facts about myself. ‘You know we saw your application. You’re 23 years old. You live in Birmingham, Alabama. You work for a foster care and adoption agency,’” she said.

She hung up and called her mom. Troutt thought it would just be an experience they’d laugh about, but her mom told her to pray about it. So, over three months, she prayed and fasted.

Then, in church, as she felt overcome with fear and uncertainty, someone laid a hand on her shoulder and said, “God told me to come tell you, you can do this, and he has prepared you for such a time as this. You have what it takes to stay true. You have what it takes to stand firm, and you’re going to have to trust him.”

“I was like, ‘What? this is crazy.’ Like, every single thing I was telling God, I don’t feel like I can do this, like, what if this, what if that…He was speaking directly to that…I remember having that moment being like, ‘God, you see me, you hear me, and if you were calling me to this like, you will sustain me through it.'”

She knew that she would be judged not only by the world but by Christians especially and would lose friends along the way. But she still surrendered to God’s plan.

PEOPLE previously reported on Troutt’s book, “Made for This Moment: Standing Firm with Strength, Grace and Courage.” In it, Troutt shares her story and explains how she stayed strong in her beliefs.

“I’ve learned and grown a lot,” Troutt wrote in the book. “And I have no regrets. I was fully myself and I didn’t change for anyone or anything.”

Troutt wrote another book since then called “The Love Everybody Wants: What You’re Looking for Is Already Yours.”

Her latest book tells readers how to listen for God’s will instead of their “heart,” as society tells them.