Britain's youngest EuroMillions winner has confessed she sometimes wishes she had never bought her winning ticket. Jane Park says her newly accumulated wealth made her life 'ten times worse.'
Lottery Winner Say Winning The Lottery Ruined Her Life
By
Sughra Hafeez in
Life Style
On 9th January 2018
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Jane Park, 21 — who won $1.25 million playing Euromillions at age 17 — says she was too young to cope with the sudden flood of wealth.
But almost four years on, she called for the legal ticket-buying age to be raised from 16 to 18.
Speaking to the Sunday People:
Ms. Park, who now owns two properties and calls herself a developer, said: 'I thought it would make it ten times better but it’s made it ten times worse. I wish I had no money most days. I say to myself, "My life would be so much easier if I hadn’t won."
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People look at me and think, "I wish I had her lifestyle, I wish I had her money." But they don’t realize the extent of my stress.
I have material things but apart from that my life is empty. What is my purpose in life?
She’s sick of shopping, misses hustling for a paycheck and has struggled to find a boyfriend who isn’t using her for the dough, she said.
She dumped ex-boyfriend Mark Scales in 2015, calling him a 'snake' and said friends had claimed he was after her money.
Park has also used her lottery winnings to pay for plastic surgery, designer shoes and extravagant nights clubbing, she said.
She also spent £4,500 on breast enlargements.
Despite being unhappy at times she said:
She did not want to give her hefty windfall away because she wanted to have children in the future and be able to provide for both them and her wider family.
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A spokesman for the British lottery firm, Camelot, said:
The company gave Park financial advice and hooked her up with other young lottery winners for support.
"Anyone over the age of 16 can play the lottery, and therefore win a prize," they said in a statement.
"Camelot doesn’t set the age limit to play – this was agreed at the launch of the National Lottery back in 1994 and so questions about the legal age to play would be a matter for Parliament."
