A winner from US says the jackpot he won had ruined his life

Winning a big lottery Jackpot is kind a dream for a normal being but for one US lottery winner, scooping a record breaking jackpot was followed by a series of heartbreaking family deaths, addiction and divorce.

On Christmas night in 2002, Andrew ‘Jack’ Whittaker Jr won a staggering $US315 million (which at that time was worth around $A550 million) in the US Powerball.

But later he said he wished he had torn up the ticket Whittaker, who died aged 72 in 2020, became an instant celebrity when he claimed what was then the largest US lottery jackpot won by a single ticket.

After winning the lottery Jackpot he suffered most. First of all his wife got separated then his grand daughter died and then his daughter died and many more unfortunate events happened with him.