The Kentucky woman accused of killing and dismembering her mother and then cooking her severed head and other body parts was an aspiring actor in California who went by a different name, according to a report.

Torilena May Fields, 32, was arrested on Oct. 9 following an 11-hour standoff with state police after a worker found a disemboweled human torso in the backyard of her mother’s home.

Fields has since been charged with the murder of her mother, Trudy Fields, after she emerged covered in blood from the Mount Olivet, Ky. home where investigators found a charred and severed head, hands, feet and forearm in a “still warm” pot in the oven, Fox56 reported.

Drag marks from the back door to the yard led police to the victim’s torso alongside a pile of hair and blood-soaked mattresses — one that covered human organs and other severed parts, according to police.

Fields first allegedly shot her mother in the head and also “intentionally tortured and killed” a dog, according to the indictment obtained by the local Fox station.

A worker hired by Trudy called 911 after he found the body in the yard and said that a confrontational Fields “was casting spells” on him, cops said.

Fields’ family members were shocked and devastated by the gruesome murder and told the news station she had recently moved back to her mother’s Kentucky house after living in California for several years while pursuing a career as an actor, model and singer.

Fields began going by the name Naomi Navarre while living in the Golden State. The alias was revealed in her indictment, obtained by Fox56.

An Instagram connected to the name shows a woman in a bright and long red wig with blunt bangs, posing for photos with editorialized makeup and clothes. The account’s last post was in September 2022.

“Navarre” aka Fields starred in two 2019 films, “The Desert Project” and “A Dance Story,” according to her IMDb page.

Fields had always dreamed of making it in Hollywood and was voted “biggest flirt” in her high school, according to her senior yearbook obtained by the Fox station.

She wrote in the Bracken County High School yearbook from 2011 that she hoped to become “a famous singer and shock the world.”

She appears to have completed one of those goals.

“Life is what it is. There are two types of people in the world… those who are forgotten and those who are remembered. I choose to be remembered,” Fields eerily wrote as her senior yearbook quote.

Her cousin Olivia Brock told Fox56 that the family is in complete shock.

“All of us have been experiencing shock for the first time, I guess you could say,” she said. “That’s a whole different – grief and shock are two different ballgames.”

A friend of Fields from college described her as outgoing and friendly.

“Just nothing really bothered her. She was very outgoing, energetic, though, funny,” Brandon Shankle, who went to Morehead State University with Fields, told the station. “I wouldn’t say we were best friends forever, but, you know, we were close enough that when I heard this news, I was just stunned. You know, that’s not the person I knew.”

Brock said Fields was in a bad motorcycle wreck in California and wonders if it was the catalyst of a mental break.

“She was an actress and doing her thing out there, and I guess we were told a couple of months ago that she was in a bad motorcycle accident and sustained a brain injury,” she told Fox. “And was, I guess, wandering around Cali. Didn’t know her name. Didn’t know where she belonged. I guess people were trying to get her help down there and couldn’t get it done, so that’s when Trudy stepped in to help.”

After the crash, she moved back home to Kentucky with her mother in August.

“It was a surprise to all of us that she was back here, and we think that Trudy was trying to help her with whatever she had going on mentally,” Brock said.

Fields’ uncle thinks his niece was out of her mind.

“I think somebody has lost control of their mind,” Todd Brock told FOX 56. “Satanism or something had her brainwashed, whatever witchcraft is? I heard she was into it, but the girl in the mug shot? That’s not the girl we know.”

The alleged killer was reportedly under the influence of drugs when police arrested her, according to investigators. The arrest report did not specify what kind of drugs.

Fields is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, torture of a dog or cat, and obstructing governmental operations. She is being held at the Bourbon Count Detention Center on a $1.5 million bond.

Mark Pope has refused to let the transition of power in Lexington be anything but peaceful, raving about the job John Calipari did at Kentucky and embracing the Hall of Fame-sized shoes he has to fill with the Wildcats. His predecessor’s departure to Arkansas may have been polarizing for those on the outside looking in, but for the new guy taking over, he’s happy to admit he’s rooting for Calipari’s success.

Well, outside of their head-to-head battle inside Rupp Arena on February 1, of course.

“You’ll never hear me say a negative word about Coach Cal, because there’s not a lot to say,” Pope said in his first-ever SEC Media Day on Tuesday. “He’s a Hall of Fame coach. As a diehard Kentucky fan and alumnus and former player, I’m grateful for everything, all the incredible things that Cal accomplished at the University of Kentucky.

“And he’s also been a good friend, he’s been a terrific mentor. … We’ll be cheering for him every day like crazy, except for February 1.”

No controversy there. And there won’t be any from Coach Cal, either — no matter the clicks and headlines that’d pull.

When asked about his unique relationship with Pope and his thoughts on the new head coach’s first six months on the job, Calipari said there is no better person to replace him in Lexington than the guy Mitch Barnhart hired back in April. It’s a perfect fit, someone who understands the magnitude of the job.

“I think they hired the perfect guy for that job,” Calipari told KSR at SEC Media Day. “Part of it is because he played there, graduated from there, has a heart for the place and has an idea of what that is. When I walked in, I had Coach (Joe. B) Hall. I had Coach (Tubby) Smith too, but it was Coach Hall. It’s a different place if you’re just walking in, but he’s been there and understands it.”

Calipari hasn’t obsessed over Pope’s every move and the day-to-day at Kentucky since he left — he’s got a lot on his plate, he says — but there is nothing but love in his heart for the place he called home for 15 years.

“He and I have talked. I am fully immersed in what I’m doing. I’m like — you won’t believe this. I’m doing a lot of stuff, and I don’t have time for any of the other stuff, any of the things out there,” Calipari told KSR. “I’ll be rooting for ’em. I want Kentucky (to do well). Come on, man. 15 years. I gave them my heart and soul.”

Like Pope, Calipari will be rooting for his former program to do well — again, on most days.

“You think I want — I want them to do well. Except on what date? (February 1.) OK, that date,” he joked.

Coach Cal has always said he wanted Kentucky to be left in good hands the day he walked away. Looking back six months later, the Hall of Fame coach is confident it is with Mark Pope leading the way.

“He’s a good man and a terrific basketball coach,” Calipari said. “They hired the right guy. They really did.”

John Calipari is getting ready for his first season with the Arkansas Razorbacks after spending 15 seasons in Lexington. It’s a big change for him, but one coach in the SEC who has known him for decades thinks he will do well in Fayetteville.

Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes spoke at SEC Media Day and talked about his thoughts on Calipari’s transition to Arkansas. Barnes described him as a “winner” wherever he goes. The two go way back, and if there is someone that knows Calipari the best, it’s Rick Barnes.

“We go back a long time and we started a relationship back in 1975-76 at the University of Pittsburgh camp that the we both worked. …We’ve had a dear friendship since that time. He’ll do great (at Arkansas). Wherever he’s gone he’s built a winner. He’s one of the great coaches of all time. He will make it even tougher than it’s ever been to play at Arkansas, and I’m happy for him because I think he’s happy, and what he did at Kentucky was really unbelievable if you look back on it and his time there. But what he did at Memphis, UMass, everywhere he’s been, he’s winner and he will continue to do that.”

– Rick Barnes on Calipari.

That’s some very high praise from a close friend of Calipari that has known him for many years. It is also very interesting though, with the way Barnes has had Calipari’s number as of late in head-to-head matchups. At the end of the day, Calipari is a Hall of Fame coach that really has had success everywhere he’s been.

With Calipari taking a lot of his players with him to Arkansas, it will be interesting as to how his first season in Fayetteville goes after spending 15 years as the Kentucky head coach.