A woman who achieved everyone's dream of winning the lottery has revealed that it's not all that it's made out to be - and she even wants to sue them for it!
Jane Park, from Edinburgh, Scotland was seen as incredibly lucky worldwide after she won $1 million aged just 17 from the first lottery ticket she ever bought.
I'm sure we're all guilty of daydreaming about what we would spend the money on when (not if) we ever win big - personally, a holiday home in the Caribbean sounds like a dream.
But what is rarely considered is the negative impacts winning a large sum of money can bring into someone's life - as Jane found out all too well.
In an interview with Dr. Phil on January 9, Jane revealed that she believed she was far too young to win the lottery and struggled with death threats, stalkers, and media attention that the lottery brought with it.
She revealed that the initial thrill of winning was fun, but it all went downhill when Camelot, the organizer of the national lottery, pushed for her to go public about her win.
It's a personal choice whether to go public with lottery winnings in the UK. Still, the organizing company told Jane that being a 17-year-old winner is unusual and they wanted to advertise it.
However, her newfound fame and riches came with some adverse events, including being hospitalized after cosmetic surgery left her suffering from sepsis, leading Jane to threaten to sue the company.
"In the UK, it was 18 to gamble and 16 to play the lottery," she explained. "You couldn't put a pound in a machine or couldn't go in the shop and buy cigarettes or alcohol, and you couldn't go into a casino, but you could play the lottery.
"I was basically wanting them to listen, like me calling them up and saying 'you should raise the age'. They were never going to listen and that is why I went massive with it."
Jane campaigned to raise the age to play the lottery to 18, as she described herself as a "naive 17-year-old" when she won a large sum of money.
Since threatening to sue the company and making her voice heard, the age restriction was raised to 18 with Jane saying: "I feel like I've made a massive impact on that."
It would seem like winning the lottery isn't always as glamorous as it appears.
