Apparently when he was young in school, when he would shower in gym class, they would lock the door, put a bag over his head, beat him, sodomize him with broomsticks and light sticks, forced him into sexual acts with other people, threaten his life, and take pictures of the whole thing for their amusement.
Explains a lot.
Zell's conversion to the dark side has worked about as well as Dennis Miller's.