Local Lottery Winner Tells Barbara Walters 'Life is a Gift'

A Dunedin waitress and lottery winner recently sat down with broadcast journalist Barbara Walters for a segment on lottery winners.

Alexandra Chaar, a 21-year-old waitress at , appeared in a March 30 segment on ABC's 20/20 that looked at whether lottery winners are actually happier with more money. 

"I think there's certain people that think money buys them happiness," Chaar told Walters. "I'm such a happy person; I believe that life is a gift. I ask myself, 'why is it me that won the lottery?' ... I believe it was given to me because I'm going to do something great with it ..."

from a Florida Lottery $1-million Monopoly Scratch-Off game in early February, and kept her job.

"I love my job. It's my little home away from home," she told Walters.

In case you missed it on Friday, see Chaar in the full, 6-minute segment, which includes the story of a Virginia man who bought a Nascar team with his multi-million dollar lottery winnings.