![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-won-1-8m-on-lotto-with-my-hubby-then-i-found-email-which-tore-my-life-apart/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newspress-collage-23396019-1691761150336.jpg&description=AFTER winning £1.8million on the National Lottery, Roger and Lara Griffiths thought they were set for life. The couple - who share two daughters - won the jackpot in 2005, having played for years, and couldn't wait to splash the cash. 8 Roger and Lara Griffiths won the £1.8million Lottery jackpot in 2005 Credit: SWNS 8 The couple celebrated with Champagne and a curry Credit: check copyright As well as buying a £670,000 pad in North Yorkshire, they enjoyed lavish holidays, bought luxury cars, hundreds of designer handbags and sent their kids to private school. Roger even gave up his job as a £38,000-a-year IT manager to become a house-husband, and set about reviving his childhood dream of becoming a rock star. Meanwhile arts teacher Lara bought a beauty salon for £200,000 which she ran to provide steady income, along with the couple putting money into the stock market. But they hit hard times when bad investments and business ventures - coupled with bad luck - saw their winning fortune torpedoed. The huge lotto win eventually culminated in the end of their once-happy marriage after multiple heated rows - and an incriminating email. By 2013, Roger reportedly had just £7 in the bank and was back living with his parents - and branded their windfall a "poisoned chalice". He said back in 2013: "I had it all, but it's gone. I feel ashamed to say this, but I haven't been smart enough to make it work. "I'm trying to keep the wolf from my door but I'm running out of ideas. If it wasn't for my family helping me, I'd be in trouble." 8 Lara found an incriminating email... and their marriage broke down Credit: laraTthepaintedlady/facebook Lara told MailOnline : "Let me tell you, winning the lottery is not all it's cracked up to be. "Most people end up worse off in some way, and no one has any sympathy because you won the money instead of earning it. "I'm not even back to square one, I'm much worse off than before the win." Before the win, Lara said they hardly ever argued and Rog){kind=link}
AFTER winning £1.8million on the National Lottery, Roger and Lara Griffiths thought they were set for life.
The couple – who share two daughters – won the jackpot in 2005, having played for years, and couldn’t wait to splash the cash.
As well as buying a £670,000 pad in North Yorkshire, they enjoyed lavish holidays, bought luxury cars, hundreds of designer handbags and sent their kids to private school.
Roger even gave up his job as a £38,000-a-year IT manager to become a house-husband, and set about reviving his childhood dream of becoming a rock star.
Meanwhile arts teacher Lara bought a beauty salon for £200,000 which she ran to provide steady income, along with the couple putting money into the stock market.