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Seymour said she did confide in the dealer, saying prior to the draw that she did not want to split the winnings. She said there were no discussions about “binding each other legally.”

“There were pens and paper available but no one wrote anything down or signed anything before the draw,” the document said, adding that the dealership’s accountant indicated there would only be one winner and one cheque.

Darin Seymour, who had to work at the time of the draw and sent his wife in his place, said he did not agree to give away 80 per cent of his winnings, and would never have agreed to such a proposition.

“When Kim told me that she said ‘OK’ to the other contestants, I said, ‘Are you nuts? I never agreed to that, and you were only there in the first place because of me’,” he said in the affidavit.

“When Kim told me what happened about how it happened, it made total sense to me given her personality and her extreme aversion to conflict.”

He noted that his wife suffers from anxiety and is “very shy and uncomfortable in social situations with strangers.”

“I won $100,000 in a draw. I would not under any circumstances agree to give $80,000 of it away to four strangers,” said Darin Seymour.

Rita MacMullin, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said Kimberly Seymour verbally agreed to the arrangement and she doesn’t believe any pressure was put on her.