A North Carolina nurse who works with coronavirus patients at a long-term care facility was recently stunned to discover she'd won an incredible $1 million lottery jackpot.
According to a press release, Terri Watkins of Durham, NC, hit it big in the $300,000,000 Supreme Riches second-chance drawing when her entry was chosen out of more than 513,000.
So when she got a phone call saying she had won, she figured it must have been a prank.
“I thought that it was a scam. I was a little upset actually," she recalled, as per the release. “I thought that it was not real, couldn’t be real. It’s still something that I really don’t believe, I’m still in some shock here.”
“Just seeing some of the things that I’ve had to see, I am very thankful," she said. "I had been praying for something to help me with this situation. It really is a great thing. I’m very blessed.”
Watkins had the option to either take a lump sum of $424,500 cash — the amount the $1 million winner gets after taxes — or she could opt to receive 20 payments of $50,000 a year. She decided to take home the cash.
“I’m just gonna take it slow and easy and figure out what I’m gonna do,” she said in the release. “I would love a new home, but I’ve just got to take time and put it in the right place.”
h/t: NC Education Lottery
