£1M Brit Lottery Winner Hospitalized After Three Months of Non-Stop Partying
Posted on: October 6, 2025, 05:09h.
Last updated on: October 6, 2025, 05:11h.
- Millionaire warns others after hospitalised post-lottery bender.
- £1M win leads to wild spree and medical scare.
- Adam Lopez learns wealth means nothing in an ambulance.
A British man who won £1 million ($1.3 million) three months ago and wound up in the hospital three months later from non-stop partying has warned other lottery winners about the dangers of partying non-stop for three months.
Adam Lopez, 39, from Norfolk, England, was rushed to his local hospital on September 10 with a bilateral pulmonary embolism – a blood clot in his leg that had spread to his lungs.
Lopez described this as a “massive, massive wake-up call” regarding the enormous bender he had undertaken over the previous three months. It was also a “kick up the backside” as it dawned on him it was time to quit while he was still alive.
“I knew what I was doing was going to come to an end eventually, and it nearly came to an end in the worst possible way,” he confessed to the BBC from his sickbed.
Quit Job
Lopez had just £12.40 (US$16.70) in his bank account when he purchased five lottery scratch-offs from a grocery store in Hellesdon, a local village, in July. When the fifth one turned out to be a winner, he watched his account rocket to £1,000,012.40.
“I bruised my arm pinching myself,” he told the media at the time, but unfortunately, the self-harm didn’t end there.
The newly loaded forklift truck driver immediately quit his job – unwisely, he now admits, because he “lost the structure to [his] life” and initiated a “complete disconnect” from his previous existence.
Meanwhile, he was “living large” and blowing money on gifts for friends and family, including new Range Rovers for himself and his mother.
World Record Holder
Lopez’s “previous existence” had involved breaking the world record in 2023 for running a mile through a swimming pool. He attempted the feat in a bid to raise money for a five-year-old girl with spinal muscular atrophy.
On winning the lottery, he told the BBC he wanted to go public because he was thinking about the “bigger picture” and wanted to “carry on that momentum of fundraising.”
But subsequently, the only record Lopez was likely to break – as he now admits – was for non-stop partying.
I think I went the wrong way about it… it was enjoyable until my health became an issue,” he reflected.
“I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t breathe. I rang the ambulance, I got wheeled into the ambulance from my house and the biggest life-changing thing I had, was lying in the back of that ambulance and hearing the sirens,” he said.
None of This Matters
Lopez, who is diabetic, was in the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital for eight and a half days – which afforded him time to contemplate his narrow escape.
“It just makes you look at both sides of life because it doesn’t matter if you have a million, 100 million, a billion, a trillion — when you’re in the back of the ambulance, none of it matters,” he warned.
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