Cheng “Charlie” SaephanLuck changed.
The 46-year-old Oregon resident, who has been battling cancer for eight years and just received his final chemotherapy treatment, became one of the winners of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot earlier this year. month.
According to NBC News, Saephan said during an April 29 press conference that he and his wife Duanphene37 years old, planned to share his winnings with a friend Laïza Chao, 55, who paid $100 to buy a set of more than 20 tickets with the couple. They also confirmed that they were choosing to receive their winnings, worth a cash value of $621 million, as a lump sum payment of $422 million after tax, rather than an annual annuity.
According to Saephan, a father of two young children, he wrote the lottery numbers on a piece of paper and slept with it under his pillow in the weeks leading up to the drawing. He prayed, “I need help – I don’t want to die again unless I do something for my family first.”
From now on, “I will be able to provide for my family and my health.”
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