LOTTERY jackpot winner Angela Kelly told 14-year-old son John: �We�ve won a wee bit of money.�
LOTTERY jackpot winner Angela Kelly told 14-year-old son John: "We've won a wee bit of money."
The 40-year-old, who has become the UK's biggest Lottery winner, said she was still in shock after scooping £35.4million on the Euro Millions draw.
She said: "It has not sunk in, I'm still blank. I need to sit with my son and get my thoughts together."
Mrs Kelly has worked at Springburn sorting office in Glasgow since she was 16, and her current salary is £21,000 a year. She will make much more than that in bank interest every week thanks to her bumper win.
She admitted she had been worrying about money before her win because of the Royal Mail postal strike, but has now quit her job, although will go back for a day to do a hand-over.
"I think it will be a difficult thing for me not going to work each day and (not having) the adult company," she said.
"I don't know how I'm going to cope with it, but I am sure my two sisters will make sure I am grounded and stop me going mental."
But she revealed some of her plans for the cash.
She lives in a two-bedroom flat in East Kilbride with her son and intends to move house.
But Mrs Kelly wants to stay in the area because she recently bought a fitted kitchen in the sales and says she will not be going anywhere until that is installed.
Another reason for staying is because John will sit his Standard Grade exams next year and he wants to stay close to his friends.
But John has given her a wish list, which includes a quad bike and a Nintendo Wii. He was given a new Play Station 3 yesterday.
A forthcoming holiday to Canada to visit family will still go ahead, but she and her son will have their tickets upgraded.
A holiday to Hawaii might also be on the cards. "It is somewhere I have always wanted to go. Hawaii always seemed to be one of those places I would never be able to afford."
She also aims to get a new car. Mrs Kelly has been driving her sister's car recently because hers was written off in an accident this year.
She could have bought a new car with the insurance money, but chose to have the new kitchen fitted instead.
Mrs Kelly said her estranged husband Gerry, who worked with her at the sorting office, was "so happy for me and John".
The couple have been separated eight years, but not divorced, and Mrs Kelly said she had not even thought he might want to lay claim to some of her fortune. But she said she would be happy to give him some of the money.
Mrs Kelly said her new partner, whom she has been seeing for a while but whose name she did not reveal, was "stressed" about what was happening.
She left her £1.50 ticket for Friday's draw in her handbag before checking her numbers online at work on Monday.
She said: "It was a typical day at work. I saw I had two stars and thought I had won a tenner, but then I realised I had all the numbers.
"I handed it to my colleague and asked him to check it.
I couldn't say it. I just pulled my chair back and put my head between my knees."
Angela was in such shock she called the wrong Camelot number to claim her win.
Mrs Kelly said her only previous wins were a few raffle prizes, including whisky.






