![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-won-1-8m-on-the-lottery-with-my-husband/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Roger-and-Lara-Griffiths.jpg&description=Roger and Lara Griffiths won the National Lottery jackpot in 2005 but she has said how they squandered the money and then lost everything after an email from her husband A woman has told how an email from her husband saw them break up after a £1.8million lottery win only brought them misery. Roger and Lara Griffiths won the National Lottery jackpot in 2005 and went on to splash the cash with a new home, holidays and designer gear. But it dwindled away. Looking back Lara said winning the lottery 'is not all it's cracked up to be' and claimed 'most people end up worse off in some way' while adding that nobody has sympathy when that happens. Within weeks, Roger had bought an £18,000 soft-top Audi, and Lara had booked them a trip to Dubai, flying business class and staying in a five-star hotel. "We must have spent £15,000 in ten days," Roger said. 'She liked handbags, she liked shopping. She spent a lot of time at Louis Vuitton." Roger also had his teeth whitened, bought designer clothes "to look cooler", spent £300 a time on Botox, and more than £500 on tattoos - including the word "Lara" on his bicep, reports the Daily Star. But just eight years after winning the prize, in 2013, all of the couple's money had gone and so had their relationship. When the couple split after being married for 14 years, they blamed each other for their financial loss. Lara said that before the lottery win the couple had rarely argued and that they celebrated the night of the win with a takeaway curry and a bottle of Camelot champagne. But while they both came from good families and were well educated, she said that they did not know how to look after the money. She told how they had a fire at their £670,000 home in North Yorkshire on New Year's Eve, 2010, which gutted the building and they had under insured the property. It was when they moved back in that Lara claimed she found an email on Roger's computer where he was asking a friend for a woman's phone number. "It was the worst moment o){kind=link}
Roger and Lara Griffiths won the National Lottery jackpot in 2005 but she has said how they squandered the money and then lost everything after an email from her husband
A woman has told how an email from her husband saw them break up after a £1.8million lottery win only brought them misery.
Roger and Lara Griffiths won the National Lottery jackpot in 2005 and went on to splash the cash with a new home, holidays and designer gear. But it dwindled away.
Looking back Lara said winning the lottery “is not all it’s cracked up to be” and claimed “most people end up worse off in some way” while adding that nobody has sympathy when that happens. Within weeks, Roger had bought an £18,000 soft-top Audi, and Lara had booked them a trip to Dubai, flying business class and staying in a five-star hotel.
“We must have spent £15,000 in ten days,” Roger said. “She liked handbags, she liked shopping. She spent a lot of time at Louis Vuitton.”