Bachelor alum Madi Prewett is opening up about her past. In an episode of her Stay True podcast, the former reality television personality spoke candidly about overcoming a “s*xual sin”, and how she relinquished her addiction to p*rn and m*sturbation. Ultimately, Prewett revealed that God helped her see the light and that religion has played an instrumental role in her journey:“This has been a struggle. This has been a huge part of my testimony, something I’ve struggled with since middle school. And thankfully, by the grace of God, and by the power of Godly community and people around me, I have been free from p*rn and m*sturbation for — I don’t even know — 10 years.”Madi Prewett continued,“That was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long. 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. I could not break free from p*rn and m*sturbation. And I would beat myself up and I would be bound by shame.”Ultimately, in her eyes, however,“confessing to God and confessing to other believers set me free from the addiction to s*xual sin.”Madi Prewett opens up on past One thing is clear: opening up about her struggles has been vital to Madi Prewett, who credits the communal backbone of religion as the source of her strength:“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.”Prewett continued,“Obviously that doesn't mean I went from that moment and never struggled again — absolutely not. I continued to struggle. 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.”Religion admittedly warped Madi Prewett's views on s*x from an early age. “S*x was a big no-no” for her based on her family’s values, but she still had questions about “all the other stuff,” as she puts it:“I didn't have clarity. Those were the gray areas of this whole purity thing that I was not clear on, that I was not certain about. And so because of that, I found myself continuing to push boundaries and continuing to go further than I knew deep down in my heart that I wanted to go or that I knew I should go.”Follow SoapCentral for more such stories.