US woman who won a free car on Let's Make A Deal game show shares what really happened as soon as the cameras were off

Let’s Make A Deal is a hugely popular game show in the United States, and for some, it is a great way to win a free car, as one US woman found out.

Nicole Fong was a contestant on the show in 2015, and she only found out the night before the taping that she was to appear on it.

Of course, she was incredibly excited, and even more so after she had won the whole thing, seemingly taking home a brand new Kia.

Yet when the cameras stopped rolling and everyone went home, things turned out rather different.

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This is how Nicole Fong won a free car on Let’s Make A Deal

Fong wrote about her experience on the show on her personal blog.

Contestants are picked during the taping to take part, and Fong was one of the lucky ones picked to do so.

Host Wayne Brady picked Fong to take part in that particular episode.

How she actually won the car was surprisingly simple, but clearly a lot of fun.

Fong had been throwing a tiny ball into an equally small cup, and doing so netted her the big prize.

“I just won a CAR by throwing a tiny ball into a tiny cup. How did this happen?! It’s crazy talk,” she wrote.

So far so good, although she said she felt self-conscious and embarrassed after it had happened.

After this, she headed into the office to sign some paperwork.

The show was taped in September 2014 and was due to air in January 2015.

Yet for Fong, the wait for the car was even longer.

How long did it take to get her car from the game show?

It was March 2015 before she was able to finally get the car she had won.

Incredibly, it was two months after the show aired, and six months after she had originally won the prize.

Much of the wait was spent clearing the paperwork, but there were other things at play.

As she said in her blog, Fong had to pay for the licenses, registration, and tax on the Kia.

Plus, she had to pay additional taxes on her prize winnings.

So it turned out that after the game show cameras had stopped, the car didn’t come without some costs.

But Fong wasn’t too disappointed with not winning a totally free car.

“I’m essentially paying the price of a used car for a new car,” she said on her blog.

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