Madison Prewett, a proud Christian and virgin until marriage, has revealed she'd only appear on The Bachelor franchise again if ABC chose to cast some churchgoing men for her to date.
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"Listen, it would take a whole lot of Godly men for me to turn my head and be like, 'Oh, okay!'" Madison said while discussing her faith-focused memoir, Made for This Moment: Standing Firm with Grace, Strength and Courage.
In fact, Madison already turned down a stint on Bachelor in Paradise's seventh season this past summer.
"I didn't feel like Paradise was really my scene. Some of my friends went on there and had a great time, so good for them! But it just wasn't my thing," the Alabama native shared.
Madison said she's not even sure The Bachelorette leading role would interest her.
"You never know what the future holds [but] it's not something that's really on my radar," she explained.
"There's been talks in the past with the franchise but if that's something that were to continue, there would have to be a lot of conversations."
Madison noted how handing out roses would have to be a faith-filled decision in the future.
"I would have to feel pretty confident of what I would be stepping into and also feel like it was where God was leading me," Madison said.
On The Bachelor's 24th season, Madison seemed to be Peter's frontrunner and top pick, but she quit the competition during her final one-on-one date with the pilot. Madison seemed torn up over the fact Peter had been intimate with one or more of his other finalists.
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Peter therefore proposed marriage to his last remaining bachelorette and technical winner, Hannah Ann Sluss, but then he called off his engagement to Hannah and asked Madison for a second chance.
Just two short days after Peter and Madison's joint appearance on The Bachelor season's After the Final Rose special in March 2020, Peter and Madison released separate statements via Instagram announcing they had decided to split and end their revived romance.
Despite her messy journey on the show, Madison -- who was admittedly "really scared and nervous to step into" the spotlight -- told Page Six it was "God's calling" for her to join The Bachelor cast.
"I didn't know how I would be portrayed and how my faith would come across and if I would be judged or criticized," Madison recalled.
"But I just had so much peace knowing [that] whatever this looks like, I'm going to go for it and I'm going to trust that God's got me."
On The Bachelor last year, Peter and Madison constantly questioned if their relationship could make it long-term due to their different lifestyles and motivations.
Peter's mother Barbara Weber claimed Peter loves to party and is generally "spiritual," but Madison claimed to have devoted her life to God.
According to Page Six, she graduated from seminary school and once envisioned herself becoming a pastor's wife.
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Not only was Madison a virgin on the show -- and Peter had sex with Hannah Brown four times in the Fantasy Suite on The Bachelorette's fifteenth season -- but Madison said one of her biggest goals in life is to open an orphanage.
Madison also said she expected her future husband to be the religious leader of her future children, and Peter admitted to the bachelorette his faith could definitely be stronger.
"Coming off the show, I had thousands of people reaching out and sharing, 'I was so afraid to stay true to myself, so afraid to share my faith, so afraid to save myself for marriage because of what other people thought. But you gave me that kind of courage and that push that I needed,'" Madison said.
Madison therefore insisted the "pain" she felt from her split with Peter, and the public scrutiny and criticism that followed, was well worth it.
"It's really cool looking back now, how I feel like I just learned so much and now have this opportunity to impact other people," Madison acknowledged.
"I've had a couple different girls share that they decided to start following God, which is really cool."
Madison revealed how some fan stories have made her "emotional" and touched her heart.
"I also had someone share that they were having suicidal thoughts and the book really got them through that depression that they were struggling with and pulled them out of that darkness, so that was just good to hear," Madison noted.
The social media influencer with 1.7 million followers added, "That was my whole heart in writing this book, for other people to know that they were made for this moment and that they have purpose."
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Madison told Us Weekly in October that she and Peter no longer talk and they've had no direct contact.
"I think he's an incredible guy and everyone goes off of what they see on an edit [or] on a TV screen," she explained, "but people have to remember that every single one of us are humans and things can be depicted a certain way, but we have real feelings. We have real emotions and a real life."
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Following Peter and Madison's romance, Peter quickly moved on with his The Bachelor fifth-place finisher Kelley Flanagan.
Peter quarantined in Chicago with Kelley beginning in March 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the pair went on to date for about a year before officially calling it quits in February 2021.
Madison told Kaitlyn Bristowe on her "Off the Vine" podcast in April 2020 that Peter visited Kelley after he called and texted Madison allegedly asking "to get back together."
Peter later suggested there was more to the story and Madison had left some key details out.
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