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Young Australian opens up about dark side of winning the Lotto

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Influencer Jayden Clark, 22, revealed his family won the lottery in Adelaide ten years ago.

A young Australian has revealed how his life changed dramatically after his low-income father won the lottery, instantly enriching his family.

Jayden Clark, 22, told how his mother picked him and his sister up from school with a “big surprise” waiting for them at their Adelaide home about a decade ago.

Inside, Clark found his parents holding a “gigantic” oversized check. They had won the jackpot.

“Overnight we went from being quite poor to multimillionaires,” he said. “It was the most interesting thing that has ever happened to us.

‘We had a house that I remember, at the time my parents were struggling to keep it, and it was very much a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle.

“My dad, being a bit of a gambler… used the same repeating numbers he had been using for five years and won the lottery.”

Clark said he didn’t feel he deserved the money and that his sudden wealth embarrassed him.

“For a long time, I always went from wanting to share my story to feeling very embarrassed about it,” he said.

Influencer Jayden Clark, 22, revealed his family won the lottery in Adelaide ten years ago.

He said he often felt embarrassed by his humble family's meteoric rise to billionaires.

He said he often felt embarrassed by his humble family’s meteoric rise to billionaires.

‘Growing up, at least in Australia, when I realized it, (people) always made it very clear that we didn’t deserve it, because we didn’t work hard.

‘Even when we were children we had the most beautiful house, as if it were the layout of a reality show.

‘I was on a street where there were doctors and priests who owned churches, and there we were. We were like the Bogan family of the lottery.

He said that once he moved to the United States, he began to feel better about his situation.

‘It wasn’t until I got to Los Angeles that I felt like I belonged and that it was normal, because there are so many crazy people with crazy lives here. At home I even felt like an outcast,” said Mr. Clark.

“But they definitely made me feel like it wasn’t something to be proud of.”

The 22-year-old said that at first his family did not know how to manage the millions, but now they live comfortably.

The 22-year-old said that at first his family did not know how to manage the millions, but now they live comfortably.

Mr. Clark found his parents holding a check

Mr. Clark found his parents holding a “gigantic” oversized check when he returned home from school one day.

Clark said the money meant the family could do many things they had always wanted to do, including going to the airport in a limousine.

“My mother was very generous and helped the family,” he said.

“When I was a kid, my best friends would spend Christmas Eve and stay with us so Santa would bring them gifts.”

Clark said her family tried to be inclusive of as many people as possible.

“We would almost feel bad, not directly for them, but more so for having been so lucky,” he said.

At first, Clark said the family had no idea how to manage the cash.

Initially, his family took two weeks off school and work to plan what they would do with their fortune.

‘They didn’t have anyone who came from money. They really had to figure it all out on their own,” Mr Clark said.

His mother managed to figure out how to keep the family afloat out of profit in the decade since the victory.

Clark revealed that his parents are no longer billionaires, but they have prepared themselves to be “comfortable.”

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