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Edgeworth woman gifts herself $2.5 million birthday present

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An Edgeworth woman has revealed she’d purchased herself a Saturday Lotto ticket for her birthday because she was feeling “lucky”.

But, she never expected it to make her $2.5 million richer.

There were eight division one winning entries across Australia in Saturday Lotto draw 4233, on Saturday 12 February.

Each entry took home a prize worth $2.5 million.

On Wednesday morning (16 February), an official from The Lott spoke to the Newcastle woman, who’d only just discovered her multi-million-dollar win.

“Woo-hoo! I’m having trouble standing up right now,” she giggled.

“This is incredible.

“When my husband checked this ticket last night, we thought we’d won $900, not $2.5 million.

“And, gosh, we were excited enough about that.

“I actually bought this ticket for myself for my birthday as a little treat.

“My husband usually buys our Lotto tickets, but I was feeling lucky because it was my birthday, so I did instead.”

She admitted the monetary gift would now benefit the entire family.

“I can’t wait to call my family and tell them we’ve won division one,” she said.

“It’s going to be amazing.

“We were going to go out today to do some shopping, but we might ditch those plans and go out for Chinese for lunch.

“We’ll get a really nice bottle of champagne as well to celebrate.

“It might be a bit of a wild one.

“I think I need to go home first and sit down and let the news sink in.

“I’m trying so hard to keep calm right now.

“We have struggled a lot throughout our lives, so this is a life-changing win.

“I’m just so pleased about it.

“We’re going to share the prize with our family and then spend lots of time travelling.

“We want to see more of Australia and then we’d love to go to the UK for a while.”

The winning entry was purchased at Edgeworth Newsxpress, Shop 9 720 Main Road.

Owners Kaite and Jo Atkinson said they were glad to hear their winner had been united with her prize.

“It’s amazing to know we’ve helped make someone an overnight multi-millionaire,” Kaite said.

“We’ll get a big bottle of champagne to celebrate.

“This is actually the first time we’ve had a division one win in Lotto since taking ownership of this outlet three years ago.

“What an exciting win for this Edgeworth woman,” Jo added.

“We’d love to send a big congratulations to our winner.

“We hope she has so much fun with her win.

“Our customers are all so happy for the winner and hoping they’re next to win a major prize.”

The winning numbers in Saturday Lotto draw 4233 were 35, 36, 13, 43, 37 and 42, while the supplementary numbers were 15 and 5.

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