From Rags to Riches to Ruin: The Story of a British Lottery Winner who Lost It All

2023-08-07 10:48:14

A British man once won £6.5 million in lottery tickets, but squandered all his wealth. (Schematic diagram / flip from photoAC)

Many people dream of buying lottery tickets to get rich overnight, but many people go bankrupt and end up on the streets. There is a man in the United Kingdom who once won a lottery prize of 6.5 million pounds (approximately NT$260 million), bought luxury houses, sports cars, planes and helicopters, etc., and finally spent all the money and lived on the streets for 5 years until he was reborn. Take heart, the current situation has also been exposed.

According to the “Mirror” report, when Ryan (Lee Ryan) was imprisoned for the first time in 1986, he hoped that he might become a millionaire. As a result, on March 11, 1995, the lottery he bought won 6,527,880 pounds, so With this bonus, he bought a mansion with a swimming pool, 2 Ducati motorcycles, a plane, a helicopter and a luxury car. A lot of money was spent on people who he thought needed at the time, “I used to put Credits loaded with cash are given to homeless people, this is the greatest joy I get from wealth.”

However, this bonus was like a curse, and bad things happened one following another. Ryan broke up in 2003 and sold the mansion, and moved to Kyrgyzstan with his new girlfriend, but lost 2 million pounds because of investment failure. The arsonist burned a £145,000 Ferrari and a £15,000 car was also damaged. Until 2010, he broke up once more and returned to the UK penniless. Homeless, he relied on his own efforts to stand up once more following five years.

Ryan is now a decorator. (Picture / flip from the Mirror)

Ryan, 63, who lives in Twickenham, London, decorates for a living, helping to paint mansions like the one he used to own, exclaiming: “I’ve never been happier!” Realizing that nothing can be more hopeless than being homeless, he sometimes spends the night in a tent to remind himself of what he has been through and not to repeat it.

Ryan believes that people always fantasize regarding winning the jackpot, then the worries and troubles will end, “This is not true, this is the beginning of your worry”, because the people around you will reveal their true colors, even family members may become fragmented , “It’s just an illusion, you’re stuck with possessions, other people see what you have and think you’re doing well, but I know rich people who are miserable.”

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