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Anything Goes with James English

Winning the Lottery Destroyed My Life - Adam Lopez Tells All

Anything Goes with James English

Anything Goes with James English

Society & Culture

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Anything Goes with James English Ep 531

What happens when the dream comes true, and everything falls apart?

In this episode, Adam Lopez opens up about winning the lottery, quitting his job, and spiralling into addiction. What started as freedom quickly turned into isolation, broken relationships, and self-destruction. This is an honest, unfiltered conversation about money, identity, alcohol, and the hard truth that wealth doesn’t fix what’s broken inside. A cautionary tale you won’t forget.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You can now follow me in all my social media platforms to find out who my latest guest will be

0:11.8

and don't forget to click the subscribe button and the notifications bell so you're notified

0:17.6

for when my next podcast goes live.

0:33.8

Boom we're on. And today's guest we've got Adam Lopez.

0:36.0

Adam, how are we?

0:36.9

Very well, man. Very well. How are you? Good, thank you. Lottery winner. Yep. Lucky man. Yeah. And today's guest, we've got Adam Lopez. Adam, how are we? Very well, mate, very well.

0:38.0

How are you?

0:38.4

Good, thank you.

0:39.2

Lottery winner. Yep, lucky man. Yeah, won the lottery, million quid. Scratch card. Yeah, scratch card. A millionaire maker scratch card. The red one. Yeah, just absolute chaos in me head when I won it. literally just, I didn't scream or anything.

0:55.1

I thought I'd go mad if I ever won the lottery

0:56.6

or loads of scream or anything.

0:55.1

I thought I'd go,

0:55.7

man if I ever won the lottery

0:56.6

or loads of money or anything like that.

0:58.6

And it just weren't that.

0:59.4

It was just like,

1:00.9

I sat there and I was like,

1:03.3

wow, I looked at it.

1:04.4

I was like, I kept looking at it.

1:06.9

It was like, is that a million quid?

1:08.0

I was, fucking out of sitting right outside the shop. And I thought, I thought, I threw the winds up, lock the doors, it's a little bit shady, like, but I'd done it all up and just sat there for an hour and just could not believe it, just complete, just, I can't even explain the feeling. For the next, honestly, for an hour after it, I couldn't tell you what I had to sat there in complete disbelief.

1:30.0

I always thought it was a con, the lottery, because you never really know anyone who wins it.

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