THE NSW grandmother who won a record $16 million jackpot lottery says she`s "not excited" by the massive windfall and the win won`t change her.
The pensioner, from the Illawarra region south of Sydney, took out the top prize in the $2 jackpot lottery on Friday.
The jackpot expanded to $16.025 million after an improbable run in which it did not go off for almost a year.
"I`m not excited. I just feel the same as before," the woman, who wanted to remain nameless, told a NSW Lotteries official today.
"I don`t let anything worry me - I just like to be myself. It won`t change me."
The woman said she had been buying a jackpot lottery ticket every day "for years" and had always hoped she would "win enough money to help my family".
"The jackpot will see my family right, and I`ll also invest wisely I hope," the woman said.
"I`d also like a trip around Australia. I`ve always wanted to do that before I died."
She will receive her tax-free prize after the official waiting period of two weeks from the date of the draw.
It is the biggest jackpot prize ever won in the history of the NSW lottery, which started in the 1930s.
The jackpot is won when a winning ticket, of any value, is reselected in the same lottery draw.
In Friday morning`s draw, the woman`s winning ticket won a cash prize of $20 before being reselected.
The jackpot remained unclaimed for a record 208 draws, last going off on September 17, 2007.
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