A woman who kept her huge lottery win a secret from her husband for eight years says she was forced to come clean after he spotted a text on her phone.
Posting to Reddit, anonymous winner said that she had scooped the $480,000 jackpot before she married her childhood sweetheart.
Worried that the cash would "turn their lives upside down" and knowing that her partner would likely squander the cash, she made the decision not to tell him.
Because she was still 'legally single', there was also no obligation for her to declare her assets, and so she deposited her winnings into a new bank account.
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