The painter said, "When Jeri asked how I'd turned her into a zombie, I explained that after I killed her but while her corpse was still warm, I inserted the spores of a parasitic fungus up her ass. Since she was dead she had no immune system to reject them. The fungus quickly invaded her body then reanimated her. It could also manipulate her impulse control, judgement, and sex drive, making her do things she otherwise wouldn't do voluntarily."