What A Lott I’ve Got…Not!
Originally published by the Scottish Sun.
By Nick Sharpe on 19 May 2010
A CLEANER told last night how she sparked a Lotto frenzy – after wrongly believing she had bagged a stunning £84million jackpot.
Sadie McGhee, 65, almost collapsed with shock after reading out her “winning” EuroMillions ticket numbers to stunned workmates.
Within minutes, news of her amazing “windfall” had spread like wildfire round one of Scotland’s biggest hospitals.
And soon Sadie’s name was cropping up on internet chatrooms as word got round she was now apparently mega-rich.
It was only after the shaken gran was driven home that her hubby John, 67, checked the ticket and revealed she had won NOTHING – because she’d been looking at a RESULTS slip.
But last night the couple insisted they are relieved they didn’t win the record sum.
Sadie explained her phone had not stopped ringing, people approached her in the streets to ask about it and her grandkids were hassled at school. Sadie, of Mount Florida, Glasgow, said: “Honestly, I am glad I didn’t won. The feeling of thinking I had won £84million was awful.”
Retired joiner John added: “It really worried me that I might answer the door to someone with a knife demanding money.”
Sadie told how the frenzy started during a canteen debate at the city’s Victoria Infirmary.
She said: “Some of the girls I work with had heard no one had claimed the big win from Friday’s Euro lottery.
“So I said it might be me, and fished out of my bag what I thought was my ticket.
“They read out the numbers – and I started panicking.
“I honestly thought I’d won. I was shouting and screaming.
“I lost my voice over it and I was sick with excitement.
“I was in such a state that my boss had to take me home.When I got in I just shouted, ‘John, we’ve won the lottery.’
“He took the ticket off me, looked at it, then said, ‘Don’t be so daft.’John told me I had been looking at the wrong slip.
“But I don’t know how the mistake was made. There must have been another seven people in the hospital who checked it and they all thought it was a winner.”
Camelot confirmed this week that a UK-based winner has now come forward to claim the bumper £84,451,321 prize, which is Britain’s biggest ever.
They would not confirm if the cash was paid to an individual or a syndicate.
But Sadie – who has bought a ticket for every EuroMillions draw – told how she is now relieved not to be picking up a cheque for £84million.
She said: “At the point when I believed I had won, I kept thinking about what a ridiculous amount of money it was.
“It was a horrible feeling and I didn’t like it. I never want to feel that again.
“Anyway, I have everything I want.
“If I had won, I would have given the money away.”
Sadie explained that three years ago she bagged £2,000 with five Lotto numbers.
But she gave the cash to her family and friends.
Hubby John added: “At the end of the day, this was a lot of fuss over nothing.”
nicksharpe@the-sun.co.uk
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2978370/What-a-lott-Ive-gotnot-Gran-in-84m-jackpot-mix-up.html
> Footnote: Camelot report the real winner of the top prize has requested to stay anonymous.
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