What should have been a stroke of luck turned into a sentence to misery. The story of Callie Rogers.
It is common to find people who became multimillionaires thanks to the lottery and end up losing it all. This is the case of Callie Rogers, who at 16 years old became the youngest winner of the National Lottery of Great Britain, with a prize of £1.8 million.
Between bad decisions, compulsive shopping and no financial advice, Callie spent her entire fortune in the blink of an eye. Today, she is 36 years old and lives off charity. Learn about her story between the stroke of luck and the spending of her entire fortune that led her to poverty.
Callie Rogers
The story of Callie Rogers, from billionaire to welfare
Callie Rogers, aged 16, was working as a waitress for $5 an hour and living with her adoptive parents in Cockermouth, Cumbria in the UK. When she won £1.8 million, equivalent to $2.5 million, she went into a state of euphoria.
Without asking for financial help, she began by distributing much of the money to family and friends, more than 700 thousand dollars. Secondly, she chose to buy all kinds of luxury clothes, spending more than 420 thousand dollars. And at that time she would also meet the man who would become the father of her children, Nicky Lawson.
After five years, their relationship ended. This caused her to become deeply depressed and she attempted suicide. That was enough for a judge to take away her children’s custody. When she was running out of money, she decided to spend $24,000 on cosmetic surgery in order to regain her trust.
As if that weren’t enough, she began taking drugs, which brought her legal problems beyond excessive expenses. As a result, she lost her driver’s license, had to spend 11 months under house arrest and face fines that forced her to ask for financial help to survive.
Source: Ambito
