I scooped £1.8million lottery jackpot but then I lost EVERYTHING – including my mansion and husband

A DIVORCEE has revealed the "absolute hell" she was enactment done aft winning the lottery.

Lara Griffiths, 54, won £1.8 cardinal successful the archetypal online National Lottery but has since mislaid her house, hubby and spent each of the cash.

Lara joined Roger successful 1997 aft gathering astatine assemblage with the brace going connected to assertion the lottery jackpot successful October 2005.

Working arsenic a performing arts teacher and her hubby an IT manager, the brace could not judge it was true.

At first, the parents of 22-month-old daughter, Ruby, thought they were being pranked aft receiving an alert astatine 2.30am.

The mates were speedy to look successful nationalist soon after the win had been verified by Camelot, the relation of the National Lottery backmost then.

Living the high-life, Lara and Roger became regular jet-setters, quitting their jobs and flying to assorted destinations including Dubai, Florida and France.

Back home, the overnight millionaires had moved into a £450,000 barn conversion and bought a quality salon too.

Much similar their sudden currency claim, everything came falling down successful December 2010 erstwhile their caller home was taxable to a "catastrophic location fire".

Lara said: "The whole spot burned down portion I was astatine work, but Roger, the 2 children and the dogs were inside.

"It was a nightmare - we mislaid each of our possessions too. We didn't adjacent person apparel to wear. Our location burned for 3 days."

The location was uninhabitable for 8 months with Lara's different daughter, Kitty, inactive experiencing PTSD to this day.

Despite mourning the loss of their house, Lara was faced with different conflict to flooded erstwhile her hubby near her.

By the clip they divorced successful December 2013, the brace were strapped for cash.

To marque matters adjacent worse, Lara suffers from Crohn's illness causing her value to driblet to astir six stone.

Ever since, the mum-of-two has been forced to transportation up successful her mother's house, relying connected her financially for the archetypal twelvemonth too.

Her daughters Ruby, 20, and Kitty, 17, besides unrecorded astatine the spot which has a workplace successful the plot aft Lara retrained arsenic a tattoo artist.

Lara added: "I emotion my beingness now. OK, I’ve been done immoderate truly difficult moments, but I don’t regret winning."

"I regret not having the money immoderate more, but I program to marque it backmost somehow."