Overview

• The 39-year-old forklift driver from Norfolk won £1 million on a £5 scratchcard in early summer, seeing his balance jump from £12.40 to £1,000,012.40.
• He quit his job and splurged on gifts and luxury, including Range Rovers for himself and his mother and a trip to Barbados.
• Lopez says he partied for about three months, lost daily structure, and now calls resigning from work his biggest mistake.
• On September 10, a clot from his leg caused a bilateral pulmonary embolism, leading to an ambulance ride and eight days in the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
• Now discharged, he says wealth feels irrelevant when you are ill and he intends to focus on recovery over the coming months, as told in BBC and National Lottery interviews.