I won mega £10m lottery jackpot but I spent it all – here’s what I did when I was down to my last £250,000
THE man who won almost £10 million on the lottery only to spend it all on partying and hookers has revealed what he did when he got to his last £250 grand.
Mickey Carroll, 40, dubbed the “Lotto Lout”, shot to fame two decades ago when he won the jackpot aged just 19 while working as a bin man in 2002.
He lived a wild lifestyle for a decade, splashing his cash on cocaine-fueled orgies at his mansion in Norfolk, expensive gold chains and hundreds of holidays.
He burned through his fortune and in 2013 he declared himself bankrupt and was forced to sell his mansion and return to work.
Mickey’s antics saw him make over 30 court appearances and serve three jail sentences for crimes such as affray, drug possession and dangerous driving – although he insists now he is a “law-abiding citizen”.
In an exclusive interview, he recalled how he found out his cash had dwindled – so he decided to throw a party for all his pals.
“My accountant called me and told me I was down to about 250 grand,” Mickey told The Sun
“So I threw a party. I had big party in Spain, then came back threw another party.
“We had a laugh, and then I just spent the rest.
“Why not, it’s what you do isn’t it.
“Easy come, easy go. Ten years of fun for a pound. You can’t go wrong with that.”
Since spending all his cash, Mickey has worked as a coal man, at a slaughterhouses and in a biscuit factory and insists he enjoys working life better than partying.
“People at work can’t understand why I’m so happy. People say, ‘aren’t you sad you lost all that money?’ But I didn’t lose it, I spent it.
“I never regret it. Even when I have to get up and go to work I don’t think ‘Oh I wish I was going partying now’ because I had ten years of that.
“See with work I actually really enjoy it, I really do, I can’t explain it. People say ‘No you can’t enjoy it better’ but I do.
Ten years of fun for a pound. You can’t go wrong with that.”
Mickey Carroll
“The only thing I should have done back in the day is having something to do, like a job. Because you party every day of the week, there’s only so many places you can go around the world.
“That’s why I ended up getting into trouble, I had no purpose.”
Mickey has previously revealed he doesn’t wish he left any money for his kids as they’ll have to work for their living.
He also said he preferred working a regular job to partying all day and still plays the lottery and hopes to win a second time.