Madi Prewett Recalls Feeling ‘So Sick’ After Methane Gas Leak in Her House

Madi Prewett and her husband, Grant Troutt, dealt with an unexpected gas leak at the beginning of their marriage and the start of home ownership.

“We learned a lot in our first year of marriage, [including] how to manage a home,” Prewett, 29, said on the Monday, August 25, episode of her “Stay True” podcast. “It just seemed like there was problem after problem, and we could not figure out what was going on with our home.”

Prewett and Troutt, also 29, have been married since October 2022.

“There was, like, mold in our shower [and] there were a lot of bug problems,” she recalled. “We also had a huge field behind our house that they were developing, so I think there were extra bugs everywhere. Then, our bathroom shower leaked everywhere [and] we were having drainage problems.”

Despite these small household issues, she and Troutt couldn’t figure out what caused the “biggest” home-related problem.

“Every time we were in our house, we would feel all these symptoms like nausea, headaches, fatigue,” the Bachelor Nation alum recalled. “We knew something was off because as soon as we would leave our house, we would feel so much better [and] everything would go back to normal.”

She continued, “Every time we could get into our house, we would feel so sick. Grant was getting so frustrated ‘cause he was experiencing a little more than me. I [had a] mild headache and maybe a little bit of nausea, and he was experiencing severe headaches, was very tired and [was] super sick.”

Prewett and Troutt thought that the issue could have been mold-related, so they hired specialists to examine the property and test the water. Troutt eventually suggested that the couple call a plumber to check out the house, too.

“[The plumber’s] first thing was [to say], ‘I’m going to pull out my gas detector to see if you have gas in your house,’” Prewett remembered. “He gets to our living room and [his beeper] is going crazy. He was like, ‘Did you turn your fireplace on? When you’re not using it, do you turn it back off?’”

Prewett explained that she and Troutt would operate the fireplace via a “little remote control.”

“He was like, ‘No, there’s a turnkey on the side [and] you have to manually turn it off when you’re not using it otherwise gas is just going to fill your house,’” she said. “We had not turned it off since we moved into the house. It had been on for three months straight.”

The plumber then revealed that they had a methane leak.

“He was, like, ‘Good thing you haven’t lit a candle ‘cause your whole house could have blown up,’” she said. “I’m sitting there, like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ … Because it was methane gas, you couldn’t see the gas. You also couldn’t smell the gas.”

Prewett added, “You couldn’t see it, yet it was affecting us and slowly killing us.”