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£1M WINNER’S FACE SWELLS UP IN SURGERY Lotto girl’s bum op horror

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the anaestheti­c. She was really frightened but the doctors told her it would go down.

“Initially she panicked that she looked like someone who had had a stroke. But after a few days it started to go down.”

It’s not the first time the jackpot has led to turmoil for Jane, who was earning £8 an hour as an administra­tive temp and sharing a twobedroom Edinburgh council flat with mum Linda before her windfall.

She was given an 18- month drink- driving ban in March, just a week after being pictured shopping for a new Mercedes. She was three times the drink-drive limit when arrested in her BMW 1 Series car at a McDonald’s drive- through in Edinburgh in the early hours of October 8, 2016. Jane bought a plush three-bedroom house and another property after her win but has recently been back with her mum in their small flat. She told the Sunday People in an exclusive on February 12 that she was considerin­g suing lotto operator Camelot, saying the win ruined her life. She said Camelot should not allow someone as young as her to win such a big sum. She said: “I have material things but apart from that my life is empty. What is my purpose in life?

“I thought the win would make my life 10 times better but it’s made it 10 times worse. I wish I had no money most days.

“I say to myself, ‘My life would be so much easier if I hadn’t won’.

“People look at me and think, ‘I wish I had her lifestyle, her money’. But they don’t realise the extent of my stress.

“I think 18 should be the minimum age for winning the lottery. The current age of 16 is far too young.”

Camelot appointed an adviser to help Jane to manage her new wealth. It said the minimum age to play the lottery was a matter for Parliament.

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