Report: NY actor says he killed ‘demon’ in his mom

NEW YORK (AP) — An actor says he felt like the character Neo from the movie “The Matrix” — “hearing voices and feeling powerful” — before he allegedly hacked his mother to death with a sword in her New York City apartment.

Michael Brea tells the Daily News in an interview published today that he killed what he called “the demon inside her.”

He’s being held in a hospital prison ward on murder and other charges.

His relatives issued a statement Friday calling him a “compassionate, gentle, intelligent, spiritual and loving man” who was “not well” before Yanick Brea’s death Tuesday. She was 55.

Michael Brea had small roles in ABC’s now-canceled show “Ugly Betty” and the movie “Step Up 3D.”