By Jed Lanyon
A Lilydale mum is now $1 million richer after winning the Lotto on Wednesday 27 March.
The lucky woman said ‘I burst into tears’ when she found out she had the winning numbers.
The Yarra Valley woman plans to go on a holiday to the Great Barrier Reef and share her prize with those at the top of her Lotto List.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, revealed she ‘didn’t sleep a wink’ after discovering her millionaire status.
“Oh my gosh! I am so excited! I am shaking,” she said.
“I just want to cry all of the time when I think I am now a millionaire.
“I found out last night after the draw. I checked the app and saw all the zeros.
“I thought ‘oh my god! No, this can’t be real?’, so I went and woke up my daughter and showed her my phone and asked her ‘Is this real? Please tell me this is real’.
“Then she looked at it and we both just burst into tears and hugged each other. We probably stood there crying and hugging for ages.
“Afterwards, the rest of my family came over and we kept hugging each other and laughing.
“I couldn’t sleep a wink last night. I kept wondering if it was real and thinking about what I am going to do with it.”
When asked how the Yarra Valley woman planned to spend her win, she admitted she wanted to share her prize with those at the top of her Lotto List.
“I want to leave it for a few months so I have the time to really decide what I will do with it,” she said.
“Everything will stay the same until I work out what I want to do.
“I know I will definitely pay off the house, go on a holiday to the Great Barrier Reef and help out my kids.
“I just can’t believe it is real.
The happy woman held one of the four division one winning entries where each winning entry takes home the guaranteed division one prize of $1 million.
