Clairvoyant didn't forsee woman's lottery luck

A Wanganui woman has lost her faith in clairvoyants after it was predicted she would never come into a large sum of money a week before she won $40,000 on a lottery ticket.

She bought her Instant Kiwi Cloud Nine ticket from St John's Food Market on Great North Rd.

The woman declined to comment to the Chronicle, but told her story to the communications adviser at NZ Lotto on condition she was not identified.

The woman said she had consulted a clairvoyant in Wellington two weeks ago and was told that neither she nor her mother would ever win big.

"Then I was at home scratching a $3 Cloud Nine crossword ticket and thought I had won $1000 and had completed nine words.

"But I realised I had missed a couple of letters and revealed a 10th word and a $40,000 prize.

"I laughed when I thought about what the clairvoyant had said and when I rang my mum to tell her what I'd won, we were in fits of laughter," she said.

The Wellington clairvoyant had been wrong on two counts, the woman said, noting that she had shared a Lotto first-division prize of $683,000 with her mother in 1989.

That Lotto win was fantastic as at the time the woman was a single mum and her mother was a widow. "The Lotto win changed our lives and really helped us out at the right time," she said.

She plans to put the $40,000 winnings in the bank for her retirement and has no plans to spend any money on clairvoyants in the future, she said.