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Confessions of a Man Who Won a $325 Million Powerball Jackpot

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How did you first react?

I found out at 3 in the morning. I was putting away some laundry and tidying my room before crashing. The ticket was on my dresser so I gave it a quick check assuming it would be a bust so I could throw it in the waste paper basket.

When the numbers matched I sort of swooned and got dizzy. I kept double checking and stayed up to go to the lottery office when it opened. Some of the longest hours of my life. I was very red and warm, I kept fanning myself for a few days.

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Confessions of a Man Who Won A $40 Million Dollar Lottery

Can you describe your immediate thoughts and feelings upon winning?

Denial. I never thought I would win. I thought I was dreaming when I checked the numbers. I almost passed out during a conference call with the lottery officials and an estate lawyer when they told me I won the $40,000,000. I believed I was probably going to die before getting to spend it.

What did you do with the ticket immediately after finding out you had won? I would be so paranoid that I would lose it or something.

I hid it in a cereal box and contacted a lawyer.

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Confessions of a $100 Million Mega Millions Jackpot Winner

Can you retrace us to the day you bought the ticket? What were u doing the day u saw you won? Did you run out of the store? What did u do after?

I buy $20 worth of picks whenever the jackpot exceeds $100 million. I always play the same numbers.

That particular day was just a day like any other: I left work, bought my ticket, and went home. It was a few days before the drawing and the drawings happen later in the evening so I check my numbers in the morning.

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What Should You Do If You Win The Lottery?

Congratulations! You just won millions of dollars in the lottery! That’s great.

Now you’re fucked.

No really.

You are.

You’re fucked.

You see, it’s something of an open secret that winners of obnoxiously large jackpots tend to end up badly with alarming regularity. Not the $1 million dollar winners. But anyone in the nine-figure range is at high risk. Eight-figures? Pretty likely to be screwed. Seven-figures? Yep. Painful. Perhaps this is a consequence of the sample. The demographics of lottery players might be exactly the wrong people to win large sums of money. Or perhaps money is the root of all evil. Either way, you are going to have to be careful. Don’t believe me? Consider this:

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Picture of the Day

A waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her colleagues for their share. Then she was sued by the man who tipped her the ticket. Then she was kidnapped by her ex husband, and shot him in the chest. Then she went to court against the IRS.

Her colleagues claimed that they had agreed beforehand that if any of them won the lottery, they would share the winnings. However, Tonda denied this, and rejected a deal offering her $3 million.

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