I remember my nana saying,
"It's like giving a kid a gun in their hand
and not telling them what to do with it,
'cause I understand how easily your life
could spiral out of control.
I could feel it happening.
I'm Jane Park,
and winning the lottery made me miserable.
So at the time that I won,
I was living with my mum in a two-bedroom council flat,
and I was working at the Scottish Council for Voluntary
Organisations.
I was on, like, £8 an hour but at that time,
that was a really good wage.
I was 17, so I already thought I was ballin' a bit.
So it was a Sunday afternoon
and I'd been out on the Friday,
and I basically remembered about my lottery ticket.
And I was like, "Oh my God,
I might have won a million pounds."
And I went to check the ticket,
and the Millionaire Maker matched the code
I had on my ticket.
So I phoned my nana. My nana was like, "Take it to the shop,
keep it hidden," so I ran to the shop.
Burst in the shop, didn't even wait in the queue,
was like, "Can you check my lottery ticket?"
So the guy checked the lottery ticket.
He was like, "I think you've won."
I was like Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
It was literally like that.
Ran back,
and I was like to my mum, "I need to use the house phone,"
and then they just said,
"Congratulations, you've won a million pounds."
And I remember just thinking,
"Oh my God."
And I remember just sitting there thinking like,
"I am Simon Cowell. Like, I am a millionaire."
It's a bit crazy those first couple of weeks.
Camelot were saying, "Don't tell anyone."
While I was still on the phone at Camelot
and they were telling me I'd won,
I was writing a Facebook status.
I'm like, "No one's going to believe me,
but I've actually won a million pounds on the lottery."
I remember all my mates being like, "You're crazy."
But I knew it was going to come out in the media,
so I was like, "Whatever."
People always say to me, like,
"Did you go to the ATM
and see a million pounds in your bank?"
It's not even like that.
It basically goes into a private bank,
and you just contact them
and they transfer your money into your normal bank,
as and when you want or need it.
So this was the press part
after your win's finalised and stuff.
So there are loads of press there.
There are journalists.
The bags were empty.
So basically, they wanted
me to look like this young girl who had all this.
That's the dress - it's from Asda.
I'm standing there, and I remember I was that young
I couldn't even have the champagne.
I had a glass of Irn-Bru,
and I was like, "Ooh," like this.
It was literally, like, surreal.
I felt like a celebrity,
and I still have the cheque and stuff.
It's mad.
I probably thought I was, like, a billionaire.
I thought I was Simon Cowell.
I thought I was going to be on yachts.
Like, have big mansions and that.
It's nowhere near like that. It's a million pounds.
So I did go a bit mad as in, like,
I bought loads of designer clothes,
I'd buy bags, I'd buy shoes.
I bought quite a few cars.
And I used to go out quite a lot,
maybe three or four times a week.
I would buy tables, I would buy bottles.
I was going on holiday a lot.
I remember I went to Magaluf and
one night I went in this bar and the DJ knew who I was.
And he had said, "If you get my name tattooed on you,"
the DJ's name,
he was like, "I'll give you free
drinks in the bar for, like, a week or something."
So I went straight over the road to the tattoo shop
and got his name tattooed on my bum.
I'm like, "Why would I do that?"
The drinks were, like, a euro a drink,
and I'd just won a million pounds. Like, what?
But here I was thinking, "Free bar? That's a bit of me."
Like, I had a few weeks of partying with my mates,
and then I filmed a documentary,
and it was very much, "Ooh."
And then many of my family members went,
"Look, now it's time to be sensible, maybe buy property."
So I bought a house.
I remember kitting all this brand-new building,
and then I remember just sitting there like,
"What am I doing?"
I was in this three-bedroom house by myself.
There was nothing.
I was just bored.
I just wasn't ready to grow up at that time.
So basically, I went from being this young 17-year-old,
going to work every day,
to this massive household name.
Journalists standing outside my house,
waiting on me coming out.
There were paps on the other side of the road.
They were hiding in bushes, they were outside my work.
They would literally have just done anything to get a story,
whether it was good or bad.
I think I went to an event in Ibiza,
and I came back and someone had commented on my picture,
"Are you pregnant?"
And I remember thinking,
"Why would I be on a girls' holiday in Ibiza drinking
if I was pregnant?"
Like, obviously, I'm not pregnant.
But by the time I'd got back to my phone,
or back to the hotel,
and had seen it all,
there was a story in the media and it just blew up.
I've heard some horrific messages,
and the media do play a massive part in that
because they choose the photos,
they choose what they're writing.
I feel like the media that even play a massive part
in my self-consciousness in my body.
And if they had probably left me alone,
I wouldn't have wanted all this cosmetic surgery.
And I feel like they'd never take responsibility.
I have.
So I have had a boob job and I've had two BBLs.
So, two Brazilian bum lifts.
They're the only ones I've went under the knife.
And I have a little bit of lip filler
and I've had Botox a couple of times in my forehead.
Obviously, got my first BBL.
That went horrifically wrong.
Came home from Turkey,
I got it done in Turkey, and I was very unwell.
I went up to the hospital,
they blue-lighted me to another hospital.
I was hooked up on drips, and I ended up having septicaemia.
And I remember being in there for, like, a month.
And when I got to the hospital on the first night,
she was like,
"If you had have left that 24 hours later,
it could have been fatal."
And I remember thinking, "S**t, like, I could've died."
Yeah, I done the exact same procedure again.
I know, I was literally petrified,
but I remember thinking I hated my body again.
And I was constantly in the media again,
and I went to Dubai in the second lockdown,
I remember coming back and I had to stop in Turkey,
and I was like, "Just make me feel better again."
And now I'm very happy in my body.
Going on holiday and stuff,
I feel much more confident getting in a swimsuit.
Now that I feel good in myself,
it vibrates off of me,
and I feel like people get a better impression of me.
But I think people think that I've had masses of surgery,
when I've actually not.
They always do this thing where they transform me from
when I first won the lottery,
all these pictures of you.
And I understand the difference is massive,
but people grow up.
Even when if you take a photo of someone when they're 17
and look at them at 26, did they look different anyway?
Regardless if they've got a million pounds or not.
So I remember just feeling very lonely.
I felt like all my mates were always working.
The press was coming too much.
It just all became too much.
I remember when people were trying to speak to me
and stuff like that,
I was just questioning everyone's intentions.
I wasn't necessarily thinking they wanted my money,
but I was thinking like,
"You would never have chatted to me before."
It has obviously impacted, because every time a guy tries
to speak to me, I always try and think,
"Would you have chatted to me if I hadn't won the lottery?"
Then I always think like,
I wouldn't look the way I look if I hadn't won the lottery.
So I'm like, it affects me even still to this day,
'cause I have massive trust issues.
Just wondering on what people's intentions are.
So literally it came to a point where I was like,
"I hate this."
I remember just thinking, "I'm so young,
why would anyone put someone this young
through these emotions?"
'Cause I remember my nana saying,
"It's like giving a kid a gun in their hand
and not telling them what to do with it."
'Cause I understand how easily your life could
spiral out of control. I could feel it happening.
So I actually never even ever tried to sue Camelot.
I just said that because it's a bold thing to say.
I knew it was going to catch people's attention.
And at the time I was basically just saying like,
"How is it 16 to play the lottery but 18 to gamble?"
And it as a form of gambling.
You could easily become addicted
with trying to win the lottery.
The age has just recently been changed.
I know for a fact, my voice had an input on that
because I brought it to everyone's attention.
When the story came out that I was going to sue,
oh, I literally had the worst amount of abuse online.
People were saying like, "Die."
I had acid attack threats.
It was literally hectic.
People were hating on me,
and I was just this young girl who just wanted to be heard.
I remember feeling like
my life was s**t.
I just felt like this is not what I thought it was
going to be like.
I thought it was going to be amazing.
Like, I was going to be this big, massive celebrity.
I was going to be all constantly on red carpets and stuff.
And I was literally sitting in a three-bedroom house alone,
crying myself to sleep.
You have good days and you have bad days.
There are times where I feel lonely and I feel bored
and I feel s**t.
But there are other times where I'm, like, flying to Dubai
and I'm doing nice things.
I'm very grateful for the life that I live.
I've been places I would never have been able to go.
I've met people that I would never have met.
And I do feel incredibly grateful,
but I still get shocked now
meeting and seeing new things.
Still have a lot of money. I have investments.
And I would just never speak about direct figures.
I never want to seem like I'm too flashy.
So I would rather just keep it to myself and my accountant.
And then I'm happy with that.