Woman woke her husband up when she saw her Virginia lottery prize. ‘Am I crazy?’
Jill Lawson was at home in Abingdon, Virginia, playing lottery games on her phone when something unbelievable happened.
She won the MONOPOLY Progressive Jackpots game.
“I woke up my husband and said, ‘Am I crazy? Am I crazy?’” Lawson told Virginia lottery officials, according to a Jan. 20 news release.
Lawson said her husband took a look at the prize and asked her, “is that six figures?”
It was. Lawson won $313,131, the game’s jackpot prize.
“It feels pretty surreal!” she told lottery officials.
Abingdon is about 120 miles northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina.
This story was originally published January 20, 2023 at 9:59 AM with the headline "Woman woke her husband up when she saw her Virginia lottery prize. ‘Am I crazy?’."
Moira Ritter
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