Madi Prewett, who starred on Season 24 of “The Bachelor,” gave insight into her relationship with her husband, Grant Troutt, on the podcast they co-host.
Madison “Madi” Prewett Troutt is facing backlash about her recent comments about her marriage.
The reality TV star, who was featured in Peter Weber’s season of “The Bachelor,” caused an uproar online when she said she loves being a “submissive wife” to her husband, Grant Troutt.
“Being a submissive wife, it was a challenge for me at first and now it’s, like, my favorite thing. I love talking about submission,” she said on the Dec. 1 episode of her “Stay True” podcast featuring Bryce Crawford, an Evangelical Christian influencer.
“Stay True” description, according to its website, is a podcast featuring “real-life advice true to your values, beliefs, and standards.”
Prewett and Troutt speak openly about their Christian faith on the show. The couple married in 2022 and share a daughter, Hosanna, born in 2025.
Troutt, who was co-hosting with her at the time, said he believes that men are the “thermostat of the relationship.”
“For anybody listening, like, the man is the leader, and it’s not a ‘dictatorship man,’ it’s this covering of, I got you,” he said.
Troutt then talked about his wife and said he remembered a time when she looked at him and said, “I follow you as you follow Christ.”
Online, people questioned, and criticized, Prewett’s stance on her role in her marriage.
However, this isn’t the first time that Prewett has expressed her views about submission. During a June 2024 podcast episode, she said she found the “security” that she was “craving” when she finally decided to submit to God’s will and her husband’s.
“It wasn’t in my nagging, it wasn’t in my controlling, it wasn’t in my feminist approach that I got the security that I wanted. It was in the submission to God’s order and God’s design,” she said. “And in the submission to my husband as the head of the home and as the leader of the home, that I got the security that I was craving.”
Prewett added that she believes that there’s “something in our nature as women” that makes women want to “rebel against” this idea.
“We don’t want to submit,” she said. “And we have to fight against that because it is our call as a wife. If you chose to get married and you’re choosing to build your life on the foundation of Jesus Christ, it is your call to submit to your husband and to respect him.”
