Nicole Russo Says Sangha Hid Double Life Before 15-Year Sentence — Suzanne Perry
suzanne perry is at the center of a new fallout from Jasveen Sangha’s 15-year prison sentence: Nicole Russo says the woman she knew as a friend was also hiding a drug-dealing life. Sangha was sentenced on April 8 after pleading guilty to selling the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry in 2023.
Russo said she feels betrayed because she did not know about the other side of Sangha’s life. “I feel betrayed,” she said, adding that Sangha “was living two lives” and kept “that side hidden.”
Russo’s 2011 friendship
Russo said she first met Sangha around 2011 through mutual friends and connected with her at festivals through Russo’s family involvement in the music industry and the concert business. “I remember she was very sweet, young and bubbly,” Russo said, describing the first version of Sangha she knew.
Over time, Russo said she noticed Sangha wearing more expensive clothing, but never saw the behavior she now associates with the drug-dealing case. “I wouldn't have been so friendly if I had seen her in a situation where she was all drugged out,” Russo said. “I just saw her as a young girl becoming a woman.”
What Russo says she missed
Russo said Sangha never discussed drugs or openly used them around her, and she never saw her wasted. That gap between the public friend and the hidden criminal case is what makes Russo’s comments so pointed: she says Sangha’s alleged second life stayed invisible even to someone who knew her for years.
The betrayal landed again when Russo and Sangha reconnected shortly before Sangha’s arrest and shared a glass of wine at Russo’s home. Russo said, “We’re talking about someone who was a friend of mine. I didn’t know the other side of what was going on — the dealing. And so many lives were affected. She was living two lives. There was a duality to her, I guess, a hidden aspect to her life. She kept that side hidden. She may have opened up to somebody else. She definitely did not open up to me.”
April 8 and after
The April 8 sentence closes the legal phase for Sangha, but Russo’s comments keep the story focused on the circle around Perry rather than just the court record. Investigation Discovery’s “Hollywood Demons” episode “Doctor Feelgoods” put Russo on the record about the same hidden-life theme, and her account now frames Sangha less as a headline figure than as someone who maintained two versions of herself until the case broke open.
