In 2013, Jane Park won the EuroMillions lottery at just 17 and her life changed completely, not for the better.
In an interview with Dr Phil that was aired on January 9, Park who is now 27-years-old spoke about the downside of winning such a huge amount of money at the EuroMillions at such a young age.
In the episode titled ‘The Curse of the Lottery’, Park tells Dr Phil about the abuse she went through after winning. “I wish I’d never won it, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”
EuroMillions Hell
The Edinburgh lass won one million pounds and admitted to Dr Phil that it was hell. The talkshow host also asked her about how she had death threats and stalkers after winning.
Park said that she was so scared to leave her home as there were threats that people would throw acid on her face.
Before her jackpot win, Park worked as an office assistant and lived in a council flat with her mother. The winning ticket was the first lottery ticket she had ever bought.
She told Dr Phil, “When I won I was at home with my mum, I had never played the lottery before and neither had my mum so she was like I don’t really know if that’s real. I was screaming that I thought I had won a million pounds and mum was telling me to calm down, she thought I was overreacting. I went to the shop and they even said it looks like you’ve won but we’re not sure, you’ll have to call Camelot, so I stuck the ticket down my top and ran home like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
“I said to my mum I need to use the landline to call the lottery and she said you’re not calling it will cost a fortune, and I said calm down I’ve got this.
Horrors
“It’s a choice but you’re encouraged to go public, especially when the case is different, so because I was 17 they said it’s almost unheard of, you should tell people.”
She then spoke about the ‘horrors’ she went through after winning and going public about it.
“The invasion of privacy, people feel like they are entitled to an opinion on me, I had a stalker, there were people hiding inside the bushes outside my house, they were threatening to throw acid in my face.
“I was scared to walk out my front door, I don’t think that anyone should ever fee like that,” said Park.