Teenager Wins $48 Million With First Lottery Ticket She Ever Bought

Canadian teenager who won the $48 million lottery prize experienced the luck of a lifetime.

What's best? She's never purchased a ticket for the big potluck game before.

Credit: Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation

Accidentally purchasing the winning ticket on her first attempt, Juliette Lamour, who just turned 18 years old, was able to win the enormous jackpot reward (worth about £30 million).

Lamour has broken a record by being the youngest lottery winner to ever win such a huge jackpot.

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Nobody as young as Lamour has ever come close to winning a jackpot that large, even though she isn't the youngest person to ever win the lottery.

Juliet thinks that it was entirely coincidental that she chose to purchase a ticket for this specific lottery draw.

She informed Global News that her grandfather had advised her to celebrate turning 18 by entering the lottery as a "fun" activity.

And he was definitely right since Lamour will remember this birthday!

She told the outlet: “I just turned 18 and my grandfather suggested I buy a lottery ticket for fun.”

“When I went to the store, I wasn’t sure what to ask for because I had never bought a ticket before, so I called my dad who told me to buy a LOTTO 6-49 Quick Pick."

Lamour is still getting to accept the fact that she won the jackpot on her first attempt.

“I still can’t believe I hit the Gold Ball jackpot on my very first lottery ticket!” she said, before admitting that she had actually forgotten about buying the ticket.

She said that she and her coworkers had just happened to talk about the recent large win after hearing on the local news that Lamour, who lives in Sault Ste. Marie had purchased the winning ticket but it had not yet been claimed.

When Lamour checked the lottery app on her phone after that, she was in shock at her good fortune.

“My colleague fell to his knees in disbelief. He was yelling, in fact, everyone was yelling that I won $48 million!” she recalled.

She claimed that when she opened the app to see if her numbers had been picked, a winning jingle began to play and the message "Big Winner" appeared on the screen.

Since then, the OLG has commented on her victory and stated that "no other 18-year-old lottery winner in Canada has ever won as much as Juliette."

Lamour responded when asked what she intended to do with her prize money by saying she wanted to finish her academic work before embarking on some "summer adventures."