Fortune struck big for a Brit lady, who owned a lottery ticket worth $181 million, but her husband became a villain to her luck, as he binned the ticket.

An elderly woman, who has not been named for security reasons, had taken note of the numbers on her ticket but did not have the original.

“I play every week - I play the lottery, the Euromillions and the Thunderball - but my husband takes the ticket off me and I don’t see it again. That’s why I always write my numbers down,” News.com.au quoted her as telling the Coventry Telegraph.

After the ticket remained unclaimed for over a week, she checked her notepad and found the winning numbers to be hers.

“I went down to the newsagent and showed him my pad. He said, ‘My God, you’re a winner,’ but I said, ‘I’m not a winner - the ticket has been binned,'" she said,” she added cursing the moment when the ticket was thrown.

The winning ticket netted the biggest jackpot ever scooped on the Europe-wide contest.