B.C. man wakes up to news he won $5M on lottery ticket

Lottery winner Roddie M. is seen in this image handed out by the BCLC.

A Surrey resident recently learned his life was changed forever before he even got out of bed, according to the B.C. Lottery Corporation.

Roddie M. was the lucky winner of the $5M Lotto 6/49 jackpot in the April 22 draw.

“I was waking up in bed,” he told the BCLC in a Thursday media release. “When you win you get a notification. For me, normally it’s a dollar or a free ticket. When I got this notification, I checked and saw a five with lots of zeros.”

He said he thought the email was a mistake, but upon checking the tickets he realized he was indeed a multimillionaire.

“I didn’t believe it. I woke up my son to tell him,” Roddie said.

He told the BCLC the win felt “surreal” and he celebrated the windfall by going out for a steak dinner at The Keg with his son.

The odds of winning the main $5M jackpot on a Lotto 6/49 ticket, which requires matching all six numbers, are roughly one in 14 million.