Heiress defied meddling parents to dump plastic surgeon for blue collar soulmate...then the unthinkable happened
A beautiful heiress defied her doctor parents by dumping her plastic surgeon boyfriend for a blue collar cop she adored - then died of cancer after her mom and dad insisted there was nothing seriously-wrong with her.
Shahrzad Naso, 37, passed away from brain cancer on April 14, 2024 leaving her husband Scott Naso and their three-year-old daughter Laila devastated.
She only realized she was sick after friends tricked her into getting an examination from a neurologist.
Scott believes his wife would have survived if her parents Dr. Siavash Ghoreishi and Dr. Jila Khorsand had not discouraged her from seeking treatment elsewhere.
The couple believed that their daughter was suffering from side effects related to Ozempic and withdrawal from Prozac, the Boston Globe reports, even though Shahrzad had previously suffered breast cancer.
'I think their level of medical negligence and reckless behavior is the main reason she passed away when she did,' Scott told the outlet.
He and his parents-in-law had a fractious relationship from the start.
Shahrzad, who was known as Sherry, had dumped the wealthy plastic surgeon her parents wanted her to marry in favor of Middletown detective Scott.
The pair were deeply in love and described one another as soulmates.
Rhode Island heiress Shahrzad Naso died from brain cancer after her doctor parents dismissed her symptoms and encouraged her to use alternative medicine. Pictured: Shahrzad with husband Scott and daughter Laila
He nursed her through grueling breast cancer treatment and the two married shortly after.
After Sherry's death, Scott uncovered 124 prescriptions the couple had written for his wife in the last 10 years, which 'masked' her symptoms, experts told the Boston Globe.
He also uncovered prescriptions written for his daughter without his knowledge.
The American Medical Association's code of ethics advises doctors not to treat close family members.
Scott is now locked in a bitter court battle over whether the grandparents should be allowed visitation with Laila.
The medics say they have the best interests of both their loved ones at heart.
'Sherry was my only child. We were very close,' Khorsand said. 'From a very young age, we have been very, very close friends, and not just mother and daughter. She is my true love, my reason for living.'
She accused Scott of being 'emotionally abusive' and a 'narcissist'.
'His style was to make a big violent outburst, and then slam the door and leave,' Khorsand told the Globe.
Scott believes his wife would have survived if her parents Dr. Jila Khorsand (left) and Dr. Siavash Ghoreishi (right) had not discouraged her from seeking treatment elsewhere
Scott and Sherry married in 2020 after meeting at a pub and immediately hitting it off.
Sherry's breast cancer battle brought them closer together and Scott proposed not long after.
In 2021, they welcomed Laila using an egg donor and surrogate, paid for by her parents.
But the family's idyllic life in their 'dream' $1 million in Portsmouth was shattered in 2023 when Sherry started developing strange symptoms.
She became irritable, confused and suffering from dizzy spells and limpness in her limbs.
'I suggested that Sherry go to the hospital and get blood work done, but Scott said she won't go, she only takes medical advice from her parents,' their friend, Anthony Arone, recalled. 'How do you fight that?'
At a routine check up in December that year there did not appear to be signs of cancer, just mild lymphedema in Sherry's arm.
Ghoreishi insisted he would treat his daughter and he and his wife all but moved in with her family, causing some marital strain.
Shahrzad and Scott were living their dream life in this $1 million Rhode Island home when she developed strange symptoms in 2023
By March 2024 her symptoms had worsened and a nurse practitioner encouraged her to seek further treatment, which she refused.
Eventually Scott enlisted the help of a friend's neurologist father and they tricked Sherry into going for an exam.
By that stage, Sherry could barely speak, move and was forgetting her train of thought.
Dr. Thomas Morgan was immediately alarmed and ordered an emergency MRI.
All the while, Sherry's parents insisted that she could not be suffering from cancer.
'U said I'd be fine,' Sherry wrote in a heartbreaking text to her parents which was shown to the Globe.
But she never recovered. Sherry was sent for surgery to try and remove a deep rooted brain tumor, but never regained consciousness.
Her parents never visited her in hospital. Kohrsand said her daughter told her not to and that they did not want to see her in that condition.
The couple also did not attend her funeral. They did gather at their daughter's home where they were seen squirting the steroid Prednisone down a screaming Laila's throat in front of horrified mourners.
Now Scott is fighting to prevent his parents-in-law from spending time with Laila, who he claims began experiencing behavioral problems after each of their visits.
They claim that the court battle over visitation with Laila is retaliation for them asking Scott to move his belongings out of their $5 million Maine beach house.
Ghoreishi and Khorsand petitioned the court for access to Laila and were granted temporary visitation rights without a hearing, in a break with normal protocol.
Her parents thought the symptoms were linked to Ozempic and Prozac-withdrawal, but she later was diagnosed with brain cancer
It is not clear how long the temporary arrangement will last.
'It's horrific. And if this is happening to me, imagine all the other good people this is happening to and to the kids this system is failing,' Scott said.
Scott also filed a complaint to the Rhode Island Department of Health accusing Ghoreishi and Khorsand of engaging in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy and creating 'a cycle of chronic illness and dependency of their care' for his wife and daughter.
'The doctors prescribed and administered excessive amounts of unjustified prescription medications without appropriate medical documentation … [which] resulted in serious, catastrophic, and irreversible conclusions,' he wrote.
His wife's parents meanwhile maintain that their daughter got sick as a result of stress brought on by her husband.
Neither practices medicine any more and both appear to have retired.
