Canadian teen wins $48m lotto jackpot on first try

When Juliette Lamour won a lotto jackpot connected her archetypal try, the sensible teen instantly turned to a fiscal planner, oregon Dad, arsenic she calls him.

The 18-year-old conscionable scooped C$48m ($35.8; £29.7m), becoming the youngest Canadian ever to triumph specified a large prize.

But portion galore teens abruptly endowed with unimaginable wealthiness mightiness tally wild, Ms Lamour intends to support her feet firmly planted connected the ground.

The assemblage pupil plans to decorativeness her studies and go a doctor.

"I was crying - blessed tears - of course," she said astatine the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation connected Friday arsenic she celebrated past month's win.

"I inactive can't judge I deed the Gold Ball jackpot connected my precise archetypal lottery ticket!"

Ms Lamour, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, said she had forgotten each astir the lottery summons until she heard quality that idiosyncratic from her hometown had won the 7 January draw.

When she went to cheque her summons done a mobile app, a jingle started to play and "Big Winner" flashed connected the screen.

"My workfellow fell to his knees successful disbelief," Ms Lamour said.

"He was yelling. In fact, everyone was yelling that I won $48 million."

Her brag told her she could permission early, but her parent insisted she enactment and decorativeness her shift.

Ms Lamour said she volition "carefully" put the bulk of the jackpot with the assistance of her wealth manager father.

In fact, her dada has already fixed her the champion portion of fiscal proposal - it was his thought to bargain the Lotto 6/49 speedy pick.

Ms Lamour plans to put immoderate of the wealth to fulfill her imagination of becoming a doc without worrying astir grants oregon loans.

She wants to instrumentality to bluish Ontario to signifier medicine and springiness backmost to her community, she said.

But Ms Lamour does program to person a small amusive with the jackpot winnings.

"Once schoolhouse is done, my household and I volition prime a continent and commencement exploring," she said.

"I privation to acquisition antithetic countries, survey their past and culture, effort their food, and perceive to their language."

She's besides hoping to abide by immoderate of the proposal loved ones person shared with her.

"Money doesn't specify you," she said. "It's the enactment you bash that volition specify you."