'Psychic' woman who won $15 million reveals how she 'manifested' life-changing win

A woman who won £11.5million ($15million) on her first evening playing online slots has revealed how she 'manifested' the life-changing sum.

Kelly Dighton, 42, went from living in a council house while battling a drug addiction to multi-millionaire overnight after she felt a calling to bet on online slots.

The mother, who says she is a psychic medium, believes she manifested the enormous win - the largest sum the site she was playing on had paid out in 58 years - after getting a sign in the middle of the night.

She revealed on the Tea At Four podcast that she got a calling after seeing an advert pop up on Facebook, so she and her partner decided to gamble £200 ($266), but initially "nothing happened", so they went to bed.

Kelly Dighton believed she would one day become a millionaire from a young age. Credit: Tea At Four/Four Nine

Kelly explained: "So we went to bed. At about 3.45AM, I felt like a [nudge] on my shoulder, so I woke up and saw [my partner] was on [the other side].

"So I grabbed my phone, walked down the stairs and he followed behind me like ‘you’re not going on that slot again, are you?’

“I looked in my bank and I’d been paid so I was like ‘let’s just have another £100, should we?’ And he was like ‘yeah, go on then.’"

Kelly revealed: "We put £100 ($133) in and got down to £41 ($55) and a wheel came up that said ‘jackpot’ and I was like ‘Oh my god, we don’t have to go to work, we’ve just won £11,500 ($15,300)!’, bouncing around the kitchen.

"And he was like ‘Kelly, I think we need to Google this - this is not £11,500. This is millions.’ And I was like ‘No, it can’t be…'"

She added: "We had a look and I was trying to count the zeroes because I’ve never seen millions, so I don’t know. Then we Googled it and it was £11.5million, and I went from excited to numb."

Kelly admitted that she was worried if it was even going to pay out, after hearing of people winning on slots and never getting the money, so decided not to tell anyone until she'd confirmed the win with the site, BetFred.

The former couple called the site's helpline as soon as it opened in the morning and the adviser said congratulations and that they would put £100,000 ($133,000) into their bank the following day, with the rest coming four days later.

That £1.50 ($2) spin meant she beat the 240million to one odds to win the jackpot, changing Kelly and her family's lives forever.

Kelly revealed that that psychic nudge, and the knowledge she'd held firm from childhood that she'd one day be a millionaire, helped her to manifest her huge win.

She explained: "From the age of about 10, I’ve always said ‘one day, I’ll be a millionaire’. My mom and dad laugh about it all the time, my dad used to say ‘you’ve got to stop dreaming and get in the real world,’ and I’m like ‘I’m going to be a millionaire.’ And he’s like ‘I don’t know b***dy how!’, you know how they go. And I’m like ‘Just believe in me, I will be! I will be!’

"When I was 16, he said that I could go and get a lottery ticket, and I picked my numbers out and we went to the shop and we put it on. The next day, my dad was going ‘she’s got that one, Mandy. She’s got that one.’

"I had all six lottery numbers but it was on the Irish lottery [instead of the main one]. So I knew to be able to pick six numbers out. I just knew."

Despite it being over a year since her win, Kelly revealed that it still hasn't fully sunk in. She admitted: "I still feel numb now. I still don’t think it’s real until I open my eyes or I check my bank.

"I check my bank every day and I’m like ‘is it a dream?’ I still feel like someone’s going to wake me up."

Though she and her partner later split up and ended up splitting the winnings 50-50, Kelly revealed she'd been careful with her half.

She put away £1million ($1.3million) in stocks for each of her children, as well as putting £3.75million ($5million) into stocks of her own to generate further interest, buying two houses - one of which she receives rent on - and kept a fair chunk free for her to live on day-to-day.

While she was already 152 days sober when she won the money, it reinforced Kelly's commitment never to slip back into her "really bad" drug addiction.

However, she also revealed that there has been a dark side of the win, explaining: "I had death threats and people saying they were going to kidnap me to my partner, so we just had to get in a car and go."

She added: "Oh, it’s amazing the arguments it causes in a family. Because when you win that kind of money, everyone’s thinking you can give them a mill, mill, mill. And it’s like, I’ve got to think about my children and my grandchildren - they’ve got to come first.

"I did gift my mom and my sister the most that you can gift, which is £325,000 ($432,000) each, without being taxed. Because if you give someone £1million ($1.3million), you then get taxed 40%, so [hundreds of thousands] out of that would go to the government. It’s like, why would I do that? So I gifted them the most I could gift, and on top of that I did pay my mom and dad’s mortgage off on their pub."

Kelly Dighton revealed how her life changed on a single spin. Credit: Tea At Four/Four Nine

Kelly also warned: "You find out who your real friends are. I get begging letters every day. There’s only so many people that you can help, so with my interest, I try and help people like my friend’s little boy - he could never walk, he’s got SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) and you can't get PIP (Personal Independence Payment benefits) until they’re three, but the mom can't take him out because he’s got so much equipment, so I gifted them a £10,000 ($13,000) van with a ramp so that he could go out on days out. I do things like that any day of the week.

"People stoop real low, one of my friends said to me ‘I think I’ve got a brain tumor, I’ve got to have scans for a brain tumor, can you lend me some money?’ and then it wasn’t true, so why would you do that?"

Despite some pitfalls, Kelly stands firm that money can indeed buy happiness, despite what the common saying may suggest.

“Money helps," she admitted. "When people say ‘money can’t buy happiness’, hmm! Because you’ve got no worries, have you?

"If I can give my children what they need, I can live in a comfortable house, and I’ve got no money worries, of course I’m going to be happy. I could jet off to Spain, Jamaica…

"When people say that doesn’t buy happiness, it does. It doesn’t buy love and it doesn’t buy health, but it definitely buys happiness."

Check out the full episode of Tea At Four with Kelly Dighton on Spotify and YouTube now.

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