21-year-old British millionaire
Jane Park cries out years after winning EuroMillions, as she accuses the
lottery company for ruining her life.
Jane was only 17 years old when
she won the lottery and is threatening a legal action against the company for
allowing a girl of her age to participate in such a lottery that totally transformed
her financial life, saying that the company was negligent.
According to her, the financial
fortune has made her life miserable, as she cannot find true lover to settle
with, tired of shopping for designers and cannot no longer contain the stress
of being a millionaire.
Jane, speaking in the same week
she pleaded not guilty in her home city of Edinburgh to a charge of drink
driving at a McDonald’s, said: “At times it feels like winning the lottery has
ruined my life.
“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.’
“People look at me and think, ‘I
wish I had her lifestyle, I wish I had her money.’ But they don’t realise the
extent of my stress.
“I have material things but apart
from that my life is empty. What is my purpose in life?”
Jane also said: “I think 18
should be the minimum age for winning the lottery, at the least. The current
age of 16 is far too young.”
Back in 2013, Jane was a giddy 17-year-old
toasting her win with Scottish fizzy pop Irn Bru because she was too young for
champagne.
Jane said: “My nana Anne told me,
‘You might as well have given me a gun.’ I was like, ‘Nana, what are you
talking about? This is the best thing ever?’ But now I totally agree.
“She was saying you can’t give a
17-year-old that amount of money.”
Though Camelot, who run
EuroMillions in the UK, employed an adviser to help Jane manage her new
wealth.
But then Jane, who now owns two
properties and calls herself a developer, maintains it was only advice from
family members that stopped her wasting all the money.
She said: “I’ve read about other
lottery winners who’ve just blown it all and I can totally see how it can be
done.
“I was stuck in front of a
financial adviser who was using words like investment bonds. I had no clue
what they meant.”
The young millionaire splashed
out on treats such as the Louis Vuitton handbag she still carries. She also
bought a chihuahua, Princess, who didn’t last quite so long.
Jane said: “My dog stays with my
auntie but I still go and see her.
“At the time there was too much
going on. She didn’t like my car and I didn’t have time for her.”
The £18,000 purple Range Rover,
also failed to bring happiness. Jane sighed and said: “It was flashy and people
were always looking at me. But it was far too big.”
“I don’t go on holiday that much,
about four times a year,” she said. “I wait until my friends can go.
“And although I’ve been to the
Maldives I much prefer Benidorm because nobody is looking down at you. You can
get as drunk as you want. In the Maldives, you can’t go and get absolutely
hammered.”
The 18-month-old relationship she
was into went soured last year. She said: “I’ve had s**t relationships and it’s
left me with a massive guard up. With the last one, I showered him with gifts.
I thought it would make him happy.
“I bought him a Rolex, a car,
clothes every week. I regret it all.”
Jane admitted to have a faintness
for shoes and bags. And she says: “There’s no point in going shopping all the
time, you can only order so much. I get sick of it.”
Jane, who calls herself “Jane
Sexual Park” on Twitter, also had £4,500 breast implants when she was 18 and
said if surgeons permits her, she would like to have more work done.
“I wanted a quick fix for was my
weight but when I spoke to a surgeon he said I wasn’t overweight enough to have
liposuction,” she moaned.
She gets irritated by thick
online trolls. She said: “It’s the usual stuff – ‘You’re fat, you’re ugly.’
“The worst was when I said I’d
pay for the travel insurance for a young boy who was sick to go to Florida, and
a couple of folk said I was just doing it for publicity.”
On the other hand Jane can still depend
on support from her brothers and sisters
– Roxanne, 27, Billy, 19, Gavin, ten and Bradley, one.
She said: “They think my win’s
amazing. They’re very supportive of me. But they are very protective too.”
Jane has moved back into a small
flat with her mum who does everything for her, including her laundry.
But she said: “It’s scary how
different my life is from my friends’. When they say they’re stressed about
money they mean their wages are s**t.
“There’s no one in the same boat
as me, no-one who really understands. I feel like I’m a 40-year-old.”
A Camelot spokesman said: “An
independent financial and legal panel was set up shortly after Jane’s win and we
put her in touch with another winner, who won at the same age, to share their
experience.
“We have been in touch with Jane
from time to time since her win to offer ongoing support. It is always up to
the winners as to whether they want to take up that support.
“We will continue to support Jane
in any way we can if that is what decides she wants.”
According to Camelot the minimum
age limit to play the lottery is a matter for Parliament to decide on.
