Mother of two says that winning £ 25,000 was the worst that ever happened to her

A British mother who won £ 25,000 on a gambling website said it ended in ‘disaster’ with her everything.

Gabby Walker, a mother-of-two from the UK, hit the jackpot while gambling and said that the big victory has only worsened her gambling addiction.

After the victory, Gabby spent £ 1,000 in one day on gambling websites and then lied against her family, friends and partner to give them to give her more money so that she could use it on gambling sites.

Gabby has sworn to stop before she loses ‘everything’ and said that she ‘regrets’ the time she has lost with her children while she is glued on her phone with bets.

“That’s why I am trying to keep myself busy now, so I don’t have time to sit down and think about gambling,” she said.

“Whether or not people understand it, the urge to gamble is terrible.”

In one Tap Clip, the mother revealed that she won the £ 25,000 on her birthday two years ago while she was with her partner in a bet of £ 10.

“It may not seem much to everyone, but for me it was life -changing,” she said.

“I should have been able to do so much with that money, but because of my gambling addiction I couldn’t do that – I spent most of the gambling websites.”

In one day, Gabby gambled £ 1,000 away and said that the urge to bet everything is everything every day.

“It’s like something has been taken over about you and you have to gamble, you have to do it, you have to do it there and then,” she said.

‘You may not have any money, you don’t care where you get the money, you lie to your friends and your family to turn it on [gambling websites]. ‘

Remembering the weeks after her big win, Gabby said she regretted the time she spent from her children gambling and then tried to earn her losses back.

‘Looking back now, I regret it because I spent less time with my children because I was always on my phone. I constantly tried to achieve that next victory – tried to win it all back so that I didn’t lose everything, “she said.

‘After I won that £ 25,000, I felt that I had lost everything because I had placed it all immediately when I had to spend it on vacation or activities that had to do with the children, but I didn’t do that. I was selfish and I spent it. ‘

Gabby has maximized credit cards and would wait from month to month to live for her next wage check, her partner to pay for supplies to make ends meet.

“I don’t think about what is around me at that time and my surroundings, it’s just gambling, gambling, gambling,” she said.

‘It has placed a wedge in my relationship because I have that gambling problem.

“I never have money, I lie to my partner and say,” Yes, I have money, “while I don’t because I spent it all spent on gambling.

‘He always has to finance for me to survive for the month and for the children to survive for the month. It’s terrible, it’s real. ‘

Gabby has come to terms with her addiction and tries to keep herself busy and distracted, so that she is not tempted to pick up her phone and go back to the gambling sites.

“I am happy that I now have the stage where I want to change and want to get better, although it might be difficult and I know it will be difficult,” she said.

“There will be days when I can’t get through it, but with the support of my partner and my children who are just there and keep me busy and just distracting my phone.”

She added that she will also start a budgeting plan in which she will outline all the money she keeps in her account every month, then puts cash aside for essential things and gives the rest of her money close to someone so that she has no access to it.

“I’m going to find out what I left at the end of the month … I could send it to my partner, put it in a pot, to my mother or my father, I don’t know, someone, just to keep it safe until I need it,” she explained.

“If I feel the need to gamble or want to gamble, I have to be open and explain the drives.”

Gabby said she knows that stopping gambling will not be ‘easy way’, but she is determined to stop.

“I know it will not be easy and I have a long way for me, but I have to do it, I have to stop gambling, because if I don’t, I will lose everything,” she said.

‘I’m not going to have a family to support me or someone because I lied to them to get money.

‘I lose my partner because that is not fair for him and I will lose everything. I can’t keep gambling, I can’t. ‘

Thousands of online applauded Gabby’s vulnerability, offered their support and shared their own struggles with gambling.

‘What I did was to lock myself up from all my bills, contact customer service and they led to block my bills, contacted my bank to reject transactions that were done to gambling sites. This helped enormously ‘that’ a viewer suggested.

‘It is the big wins and the maximum win that you are crocheting. These streamers also gamble fake money that people hook. Stay strong! You have this! “A second wrote.

‘The way I stopped is by making my identity associated with a non-gambler. Do I have to gamble? No, because I am not a gambler. I have money, do I have to gamble it? No, because I am not a gambler, “a third explained.

‘I won more than 60k in the room of six weeks and still managed to get 23k of debts, it literally ruined my life. I can relate completely, “replied a fourth.

“I won 20k. 24 hours later it took to 30k and lost the lot in about two minutes. Gambling is not a joke, I am working on it now and I will never do it again. The very best for you and who goes through hell, “someone added.

‘From someone who has had a relationship with a gambler. It is difficult, but the first step is that you have a problem. You have to do this for your family. It breaks people, “said a mother.