Canadian Teen Wins $48M From Her Very First Lottery Ticket Purchase

Ontario teenager Juliette Lamour is now Can$48M (US $35.8M) richer after winning a “6/49” quick-pick lottery game.

Her Gold Lucille Ball jackpot was announced on Friday. She won the Ontario gritty last month.

The story begins when she called her grandfather about bringing him some ice cream, according to SooToday.com, a Canadian River word site. She had simply famed her 18th birthday, so he suggested sledding to a local fund and buyng a lottery just the ticket “for fun.”

She chose the Circle K, a nearby gaseous state station/convenience store.

When she got there, in that respect were so many drawing games from which to choose.

I had never bought a ticket before, so I called my pa who told me to buy a Lotto 6/49 QuickPick,” the 18-year-old Algoma University student said in a financial statement from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.

She put the just the ticket away. Then, a pill pusher at the Rexall pharmaceutics where the two worked, told her he heard the Jan 7 winning fine was sold inward Sault Ste. Marie. That is Lamour’s hometown.

So, the 2 scanned the numbers on her just the ticket using a lottery app.

The “Winner/Gagnant” jingle-jangle began to play, the Independent newspaper reported. The words “Big Winner” simultaneously appeared on the phone’s screen. The pharmacist’s custody went to his head, and he cut down on his knees. He yelled out: “Oh my God!”

My co-worker felled seam to his knees inwards disbelief. He was yelling, inwards fact everyone was yelling, that I won $48 million,” Lamour was quoted past the Toronto Star.

“I didn’t understand what was going on at first. I couldn’t process this news. We variety of made a scene inward the stash away that day.”

Happy Tears

She started to cry. They were “happy tears,” she explained patch speech production with the media at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. office. She instantly called her overprotect with the salutary news. Her mom screamed, initially inward disbelief.

Lamour’s fuss advised her to goal her reposition where the teen worked as a parttime pharmacist’s assistant. With encouragement from her put to work colleagues, her parents before long came to get hold of her rest home and celebrate the win.

Her father, Kevin, is a financial planner, so he testament give notice her carefully on where to invest the winnings, Lamour said.

She is the youngest somebody ever so to win such a big amount, Canadian River media reported.

Lamour also will hold no job now paying the tuition to train her for her dreaming career: decorous a physician.

She was provision to apply tuition fee assistance provided to members of Canada’s Garden River First Nation.

But now, those scholarships tin can go to another worthy country member. And Lamour ease plans on decent a physician.

Money Doesn’t Define You

“I really need to follow rearwards to this country as a doctor so I canful consecrate endorse to my community,” she said. “Money doesn’t define you. It’s the work on you come that will define you.”

For the straightaway future, she wants to use some of the jackpot to locomote with her menage this coming summer and explore another country.