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Audrey Wills Audrey and Wills W., a retired husband and wife living in Brampton, celebrating their multi-million-dollar windfall. (OLG) <\/p>\nWills W. bought a Lotto Max ticket for his wife Audrey for Mother’s Day, and now the couple are multi-millionaires. <\/p>\n
A Brampton, Ont., man bought his wife a Lotto Max ticket for Mother\u2019s Day, and now the couple are multi-millionaires. <\/p>\n
Audrey and Wills W. have been playing the lottery for decades since moving to Canada from Jamaica. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe came to Canada with nothing. We worked hard, learned to save, and never lived beyond our means,\u201d Audrey said.<\/p>\n
This past Mother\u2019s Day, Wills purchased a Lotto Max Quick Pick ticket. When Audrey checked to see if they had won anything through the OLG app, she thought it was just $70. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe glanced at it and said, \u2018No \u2014 look again because there are so many zeros!\u2019\u201d Audrey told the gaming corporation. \u201cWhen I realized it was $70 million, I was shocked. I had to double-check to make sure it was real.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once the realization sunk in, Audrey says she started jumping on the bed until she fell to her knees \u201covercome with joy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before Audrey and Wills learned of their monumental windfall, their daughter had a sneaking suspicion that they had won after hearing the winning ticket was sold in Brampton. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we finally told her the news of the win, she smiled and said, \u2018I knew it,\u2019\u201d Audrey recounted. <\/p>\n
Audrey Wills Audrey and Wills W., a retired husband and wife living in Brampton, celebrating their multi-million-dollar windfall. (OLG) <\/p>\n
The couple says it still feels surreal that they are now millionaires. While they have dreamed of all the ways they would spend their winnings if they had ever scored a big prize, Audrey and Wills said they never anticipated to win a jackpot so large. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thinking about our future and our next steps, but it\u2019s hard to make plans when this all feels like a dream,\u201d Audrey said, adding that they are working with trusted advisors so they make the right decisions. <\/p>\n
But they have some aspirations in mind.<\/p>\n
Audrey says she wants to build her dream home in Jamaica, so they have a place where they can spend their winters. Wills plans to restore some vintage cars.<\/p>\n
As a couple, they are looking to renovate their kitchen so they can create a space where their friends and family can come over together for home-cooked meals.<\/p>\n
The husband and wife had just recently retired, and said this money will level-up their retirement plans, allowing them to live on their own terms. That includes more travel, with their sights set on cruises through the Caribbean Sea.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as I have my wife, a nice home, and the sun is shining, everything is good,\u201d Wills said.<\/p>\n
The winning Lotto Max ticket was purchased at the Canco One Stop Gas Station on Steeles Avenue in Brampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wills W. bought a Lotto Max ticket for his wife Audrey for Mother’s Day, and now the couple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-822655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}