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WHEN LOTTERY WINS GO VERY WRONG

‘MY FRIENDS USED ME!’

Callie Rogers was the UK’s youngest lottery winner when she hit the jackpot as a 16-year-old back in 2003.

The teenager won an incredible $3.4 million (£1.875 million) – but youth and immaturity was not on her side. Callie splurged her winnings on friends and family who hounded her for loans and was even the subject of vicious drug addiction rumours by jealous acquaintances.

Now aged

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