A Waterford grandfather jumped up and down and shouted ‘freedom’ after checking his lottery ticket.

Luigi Colangelo won $2,512,670.80 in the June 21 2025 Lottario draw.

“It was early morning when I decided to check my tickets on my phone,” Colangelo told lottery officials at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto when he went to collect his winnings. “My wife was looking over my shoulder and was so excited because she thought we had won $25,000.”

Colangelo checked his tickets a couple of times and told himself that the win couldn’t be in the thousands because there were too many numbers.

“As soon as I realized I’d really won $2.5 million, the first thing I did was raise both my hands in the air and shout ‘Freedom!’

“I was so excited that I started jumping up and down.”

Colangelo shared the

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