Life After the Lottery The lucky seven.

across America with mega jackpots its Mega Millions and good evening everybody I'm Lynn burns it's Tuesday November the 15th and tonight's Mega Millions jackpot an estimated annuitized 315 million dollars oh my gosh like we won I get a call from mark Tommy I need to come into work there's something big happening and I said well what is it and they were kind of being very discreet about it and said well it involves this a few of us and we really need you to come in we'd like to introduce to you our our newest winners of the largest prize ever in California 315 million dollars I walked in and I mean they had paperwork saying you know we were they were faxing us stuff on what what we could have won and what we needed to do and we were hugging and crying and you felt like throwing up and running around in circles at the same time how do you explain winning 350 million dollars we experienced everything from being sick to our stomachs to not slidin I don't think I slept for two months through the night tell me like two and a half months that I physically sleep through the night after this and so I mean you go through every emotion it's it's it's weird there has been some controversy about who actually purchased these tickets as far as who was in this company pool and who was out of the pool we know there's one individual back at Kaiser who isn't happy about all this that person is hoping that these folks will share in some of these winnings we're hoping to find out some of Manion three co-workers of ours came forward saying that they were normally part of our article and that we had agreed some of us had agreed to put money in for them and since we didn't that they were suing us because we owed them this money I mean clearly they had no evidence they were asked monthly weekly to bring it to our lawyer's office through the depositions through multiple court hearings and once a month we were being we were going to court if not more they had no basis for the claim they found a lawyer that saw commission off of 40 million dollars and took it the judge let this go on for a year and a half I thought it was the biggest waste of time effort emotions life it just flat-out really it just made us really kind of just frustrated and angry our safe finally came in us trying to end it by a countersuing and therefore ending the lawsuit we were still technically married when I won so therefore it had to be split it wasn't it wasn't you couldn't really get around it I could but I could have got jail for it I mean by then we had split up twice and we weren't on speaking terms anymore so I just told him when I left that morning I'd you do him to work to clear some things up if you're not gone by the time I get back then I will leave and when I got home that night he was still there so I just packed up that outfit and left I believe his mom heard it on the news and saw that there was a clip of my garden grove clinic on it and I flat out told him I don't need to talk to you anymore my lawyers will talk to you and she said in a threatening manner that if I hid anything the lawyers would find out we won 315 million dollars then the state takes the tax the one that goes to the schools they took it out that went it so then it came down to 187 million from the 8787 million they split it between seven of us and I believe it came out to about twenty-seven million dollars each then they split it between me and my ex-husband which was about ten and a half million dollars so that's what I got people expect you to blow it to some extreme you know I did splurge I bought a nice house that I could grow into maybe one day with a family I did buy my parents their house and I bought my sister her house I set up a college fund for my nephew you know so those were my splurges I bought a car I didn't you know I mean I kept it very I gave a lot to friends and family and you know made sure to pay it forward like I got a gift so it's fun to give gifts in return my favorite vacation with my parents was when we went I took my parents to Alaska that was their dream vacation so I took him for a week across Canada and then we went to on a cruise to Alaska so I'm really glad we did that and then my favorite single vacation is when I went to Italy because I think I found my future home they just their lifestyle there is so soothing and calm and they know how to enjoy life it felt like home when you land there you didn't feel like you were on vacation you felt like you were at home the day yes oh I'm sorry love on ready 1 2 3 see I found out I was pregnant with Austin during the Stanley Cup Playoffs so she's my little Stanley Cup baby and when she was 8 months old I got pregnant with savanah and both were a very big surprise I was not planning on having children then but nonetheless they were wonderful little surprises means everything it's it's the it's the best thing that could have ever happened to me are those little girls makes you completely selfless and end and it's it's amazing how much you love these little things that came out of you that that you I I mean we follow up with them instantly like you've never you'll never love anybody the way they love you love your kids and that's to me it was just amazing I'm not going to move to you say cheese in 2011 I was diagnosed with colon cancer to get me through the first few weeks of that it was I'll be okay as long as it's not Stage four because I've never heard anything good come out of stage four cancer like you just it's never good news if it's Stage four and when I was diagnosed with stage four that that threw me for a big old fat loop I I never thought I was gonna die ironically but I knew that it wasn't good so I guess I think I'm still because if everything happens so fast I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that I guess I know it it definitely um it definitely made me think of my own mortality which you don't want to think of at 31 and it made me question you know what was gonna happen to the girls and what was gonna happen to my family the hardest call I had to make was calling my mom and telling her I had cancer come her chemo so I've set motions in place to keep them more grounded to keep them in college to think it's not like I graduate high school and I get like about a little money I want the girls to know that you have to the value of a dollar I want them to understand that you have to work for things that that mommy isn't a bank that you have to work whether it be going to school getting and earning those grades you have to you're not going to be handed everything on a silver platter you know they say there's two kind of people those who you know the people that money changes them or you know they don't and we didn't want to be the type of people that changed because now we had money we didn't want to become superficial or snobby or let it because you know they say money is the root of all evil and to some extent I believe that is very true I didn't want to let it become a major factor in my life it was nice to have but I'd be able to live my life without it money has never ever solved anything money makes things easier because money doesn't buy happiness it doesn't buy love it doesn't make you happy you make you happy you have to make your own happiness you create your own problems you create your own drama and you create your own destiny you you you

Channel: Dan Trevino

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Published: Tue Feb 24 2015