![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-am-a-lotto-winner/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20345629-1667812038885.jpg&description=A LOTTO winner who nabbed £26m has revealed how this week's record £1.4b jackpot up for grabs will change your life forever. Timothy Schultz's 1999 win turned his world upside down in ways he couldn't have imagined. Timothy Schultz revealed how his mega lottery win changed his life forever - now he hopes others don't make the same mistakesCredit: YOUTUBE/Timothy Schultz Saturday's US Powerball jackpot of £1.4bn is the largest lottery prize in historyCredit: Alamy Now he hopes this Saturday's winner of the historic US Powerball jackpot of £1.4bn doesn't make the same mistakes. Schultz said that when you win the lottery "the exhilaration is through the roof — it's one of the most potentially life-altering things that can happen". He told Fox news: "One minute you have one life, [and the next] your world is turned on its head. "The euphoria is real, but it eventually subsides." The Iowa Powerball winner said bagging a mega jackpot makes it "much more difficult to trust people". "Most people were supportive and happy for me, but I did receive stacks of letters from people asking for money," he said. "It was difficult to trust new people — that they didn't want me for the wrong reasons. It felt like some people viewed me as a walking, talking ATM machine." Although he did "quite a bit" to help others, Schultz said it was an even bigger challenge to live within a means. He said: "There was a learning curve in how to deal with that sort of thing." But he was more sanguine about what the money can't change. "[It] doesn't change who are are as a person. If you were unhappy before, you might be unhappy after," he said. "There are some very wealthy people in the world who are extremely unhappy. Money can be positive, but it doesn't necessarily fix all problems." He added: "People often consider the odds of winning the lottery, but what about the odds of even being alive in the first place? "It's astonishing. You have a better chance of winning the lottery a million times over){kind=link}
A LOTTO winner who nabbed £26m has revealed how this week’s record £1.4b jackpot up for grabs will change your life forever.
Timothy Schultz’s 1999 win turned his world upside down in ways he couldn’t have imagined.
Now he hopes this Saturday’s winner of the historic US Powerball jackpot of £1.4bn doesn’t make the same mistakes.
Schultz said that when you win the lottery “the exhilaration is through the roof – it’s one of the most potentially life-altering things that can happen”.
He told Fox news: “One minute you have one life, [and the next] your world is turned on its head.