Excerpts from Intruder Tries To Exorcise Devil From Actor:

An Oregon man has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and entering private property without permission after bursting into the Malibu backyard of “Days of Our Lives” star Drake Hogestyn.

Hogestyn, who plays John Black on the popular soap opera, said he was on a ladder on New Year’s Eve when Cheney ran at his daughter screaming, “Where is he? I will cast him out.” Court documents said Cheney was clutching a a bible and was trying to exorcise the devil from the actor. He was recalling an episode of the soap about demonic possession, the documents state, adding that the intruder also grabbed Hogestyn’s wife and pushed her backward.

“This sick person Carl Raymond Cheney believed that Satan was in me and that he was the Christ,” Hogestyn wrote.