Woman 'Started Screaming' After $1M Lottery Prize Win: 'My Daughter Thought Something Bad Had Happened'

A Michigan female said she “screamed for 30 minutes straight” aft learning she won $1 cardinal connected a lottery scratch-off ticket.

The 57-year-old Montcalm County female said she was connected nan telephone pinch her girl erstwhile she won nan monolithic prize connected nan $10 Electric 100s instant game, according to Michigan Lottery officials.

The female purchased nan fortunate summons astatine Zerkas General Store connected North Greenville Road successful Stanton, they added.

After revealing a lightbulb awesome connected her ticket, and nan $1 cardinal prize alongside it, nan female said she “started screaming.”

“My girl thought thing bad had happened because I kept yelling ‘No way!’ ”she recalled. “When I told her I won $1 million, she didn’t judge it, and honestly, I didn’t judge it either.

After confirming her luck connected nan Lottery app, nan female continued to celebrate. “I deliberation I screamed for 30 minutes straight!” she exclaimed.

The Michigan female precocious claimed her prize astatine nan state’s Lottery headquarters, and opted to return location a lump sum costs of astir $693,000, according to lottery officials.

She now plans to put and bargain a location pinch nan money, which she besides plans to stock pinch her family.

“I’m still successful awe and I can’t judge I’m really present claiming $1 million,” nan female said.

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Michigan Lottery Commissioner Suzanna Shkreli congratulated nan female for her large win. “Congratulations to this fortunate subordinate who is nan first top-prize victor connected nan Electric 100s game,” she said successful a statement.

The Electric family of instant games launched earlier successful June, she added. Non-winning tickets tin beryllium entered into a second-chance drafting “for nan opportunity to triumph $1 cardinal later this twelvemonth astatine a Detroit Tigers game!”

More than $5 cardinal has been won playing Electric 100s games, which connection prizes from $10 to $1 million, lottery officials said. Two $1 cardinal prizes remain, they added.