The infamous National Lottery curse has struck again as one jackpot winner has revealed she no longer speaks to her family. Gillian Bayford and her husband Adrian won a staggering £148 million playing the Euromillions in 2012.
But despite showering their family with generous financial handouts, their relationship soured and they no longer speak. Gillian also broke up with Adrain a year after the big win.
Gillian's parents were living in a caravan when she became a millionaire. She gave them money to buy a flat in Scotland and then they asked her to give more money to her brother Colin. But after she gave him £800,000 for a new business, they stopped talking to her because of a newspaper article, reports the Mirror.
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Living in Dundee now, Gillian said: "They have lost touch with where they've come from. They're rubbing people's noses in it by flashing their cash, which I think is downright nasty." She added that her brother now lives in a fancy house, drives an Audi, and got married without telling her.
"I can hold my head up because I know I've taken them out of a situation," she said. "They brought our name into disrespect in the village and we had people threatening to torch the family house. My dad and brother built up one company after another and then closed them down. I've bailed them out of every debt."
She admitted it has been very upsetting. She said: "The money was supposed to make everybody happy. But it's made them demanding and greedy."
Adrian Bayford, told The Daily Mail in 2013 that winning the lottery was "stressful" and the time pressures of managing their windfall meant they didn't spend much time together.
