Lucky Couple wins Kentucky Lottery jackpot worth $1 million

A lucky couple from Kentucky namely Michael and Sheila Allen won a whopping sum of $1 million playing Kentucky Lottery’s $20 million Mega Millionaire scratch-off game. 

The winning ticket was sold at a Speedway in Alexandria, Kentucky. The store will receive a bonus of $10,000 for selling the winning scratch-Off ticket. 

“I stopped at a couple of places. At the first one, I bought a couple of Scratch-offs but didn’t win. Then I stopped in Speedway in Alexandria and bought the ticket,” he told Kentucky Lottery officials.

After seeing his prize, the release said Michael called his wife right away, who didn’t initially believe he won. “He’s always joking around so I thought for sure it wasn’t true,” Sheila told lottery officials. “But then he got home and showed me. I said, ‘Oh my God.’ I was so shocked, I couldn’t sleep.”

The couple recently claimed their winning amount from the lottery headquarters and took home $622,765 after taxes.

Kentucky Lottery proceeds fund college scholarship and grant programs across the Commonwealth, including every dime of the popular KEES program.