Candace Cameron Bure Does Not Want God in Her Bedroom, Thank You Very Much

Jason Sargent Thursday, March 5, 2026

Michael Prieve Thu, March 5, 2026 at 12:10 PM UTC

Candace Cameron Bure admitted on her podcast that “a visual of God watching me having sex weirds me out.”

Her guest, Bachelor finalist Madison Prewett Troutt, takes the opposite view — she considers sex a form of “worship” and actually prays before the act.

Bure also revealed she had “very kind of weird, confused feelings” about sex after getting married, describing a sense of shame she struggled to shake from her religious upbringing.

Candace Cameron Bure, the 49-year-old actress, Christian brand ambassador, and perpetual subject of culture-war discourse, delivered one of the more unexpectedly relatable moments of her public life this week. On the March 3 episode of The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast, the star dropped a confession that basically broke the internet for a hot minute: “A visual of God watching me having sex weirds me out.”

The admission came mid-conversation with guest Madison Prewett Troutt — Bachelor Nation favorite and noted purity culture advocate — who had been unpacking her own complicated feelings about faith and intimacy. Prewett’s take? Sex is essentially an act of devotion. Prewett, 29, noted that for her, sex is an act of “worship,” and can even involve praying, saying, “I want to view it as worship. I don’t know, people might think this is weird, but even praying like right before we have sex and just being like, ‘Hey, I want this to be worship to you.'”

Candace Cameron Bure at the 2024 Movieguide Awards at the Avalon Hollywood on February 9, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA — Photo by Jean Nelson/depositphotos.com

“A visual of God watching me having sex weirds me out. I’m giggling at it now. ‘Cause I don’t want to think about God watching me have sex. But I’m very comfortable in that sense,” she said, presumably while the podcast’s producer silently their résumé.

To be fair, Bure didn’t stop there. She went deeper, tracing the discomfort back to the peculiar emotional minefield of growing up in Hollywood with a strong religious foundation. “And it was a little… I don’t want to quite use the word shameful, but there were parts of it that felt shameful because I went from not being a sexual person to [people] saying, like, ‘Now you can do whatever you want.’ And so it felt weird. There wasn’t a good bridge there.”

Candace Cameron-Bure at Nickelodeon’s 2018 Kids’ Choice Awards at The Forum, Los Angeles, USA 24 March 201 — Photo by Featureflash/depositphotos.com

There’s something genuinely interesting buried in that confession — the way purity culture can leave people feeling stranded between “absolutely not” and “okay, go” with nothing in between. Bure acknowledged as much, noting the lasting psychological fingerprints of a religious upbringing.

“It totally just depends on your upbringing and what your past experiences have been or the things that you were taught as a kid. All of those. Again, I’m almost 50, and some of those adolescent thoughts never quite leave your mind, or those high school teenage thoughts never quite leave your mind,” she said.

Prewett, to her credit, totally got it. “I’m sure a lot of people listening right now are like sweating,” she joked. Correct.

Candace Cameron Bure attends 32nd Annual Movieguide Faith and Values Awards — Photo by Mlmattes/depositphotos.com

This isn’t the first time Bure has been willing to wade into the waters of faith and sexuality. In a 2022 appearance on Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast, she went on record with a full-throated defense of marital sex. “I hate that sex within marriage gets such a bad rap,” she said, adding, “I believe that that sex was given as a gift from God, to be within the constraints of marriage, and that is to be celebrated.”

She even clarified that sometimes the spiritual framing doesn’t need to apply at all. “Some days you just need the release and it’s just about the sex,” she said — which, again, is deeply relatable and somehow more surprising coming from the woman who left Hallmark to chase faith-based content.

Bure also noted on this week’s podcast that motherhood has made her more open about these conversations in general. “I’ve done a lot of parenting and had a lot of conversations in this area over the years,” she said, adding that she has plenty of friends who are virgins well into adulthood — and that they all laugh at The 40-Year-Old Virgin title a little too knowingly.

None of this, of course, will quiet the people who find Bure’s whole public persona complicated — particularly since in 2022, she received backlash after parting ways with the Hallmark Channel to join the more conservative network Great American Family, telling the Wall Street Journal she wanted to act in movies about “traditional marriage.”

But stripped of the culture war noise, Tuesday’s podcast moment was just a woman in her late 40s admitting that some mental images from childhood church never really leave you — even in the most private moments of adult life. It’s uncomfortable. It’s funny. It’s human.

God, apparently, is still watching. Candace just wishes He’d look away.