Helen Mirren buys lottery ticket!

Helen Mirren still buys a lottery ticket!

The Oscar-wining actress says she can’t help but try her luck on the weekly big money draw despite having what most would consider a lavish lifestyle.

“It’s a fantasy that we all have about, ‘What would we do, if we had a billion dollars?’” Helen said.

“That’s why, when the lottery gets really big and it’s up to $40 million or $50 million, I go out and buy a ticket. It’s, ‘Maybe I’ll win!’ You fantasize about what it would be like to have millions and millions and millions of dollars.”

Mirren recently insisted she never wanted children in case they grew up to be like her.

The Arthur actress who has been married to American film director Taylor Hackford for 13 years admits she considered having kids to serve as a “memory” of some of her previous relationships but is certain her decision not to be a parent was the right one.

“There were men in my life with whom I would like to have had children this lovely little thing as a memory of this or that relationship,” Helen said.

“But children grow up and become emotional attachments. They don’t want to see you and they behave like I behaved as a teenager.”