JACKPOT: Mother of Four Leaves Job to Care for Disabled Child and Wins the Powerball Lotto
This mother of four won the fifth largest lottery jackpot ever and now says she will be able to send her kids to college.
A mother of four says her four children will be able to go to college after she won a third of a historic lottery jackpot.
Marie Holmes, 26, from Shallotte, North Carolina, has come forward saying she has one of three winning tickets for the $564.1 million prize, the fifth largest ever in America.
The lucky winner said that she scared her kids, one of whom has cerebral palsy, after she found out she had won and began screaming that they ‘didn’t have to struggle anymore’.
She used to work at McDonald’s and Walmart before quitting to take care of her children.
‘They don’t have to worry about debt. They can go to college, all on me. And they don’t have to worry about nothing,’ she said, adding that the money is ‘all for them’.
Though the winning ticket has not yet been confirmed, the unemployed mother said that she was heading to Raleigh, North Carolina, to speak with lawyers and financial advisers.
She will then claim the $188million prize for her ticket, which has not yet been verified by lottery authorities.
A spokesman for the North Carolina Education Lottery told the Daily Mail Online that no winning ticket had been presented for the most recent Powerball drawing.
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