What happened to Zac Efron? Finally, He Breaks Silence

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Did Zac Efron relapse? Since his viral video in 2021, his fans had several questions about Baywatch star, Zac Efron’s face and if he’d had any plastic surgery done. Well, after years of media rumors over his face, Zac has finally broken his silence and explained the real reason why he looks so different.

Zac Efron revealed that he went through a face transformation last year due to an accident. But how did Zac Efron break his jaw? He says that while running at his home, he accidentally tripped on a pair of socks, which resulted in smashing his chin and jaw on a granite fountain and causing fainting. 

What kind of injury did Zac Efron have?

In 2022, the High School Musical star responded to rumors that he underwent plastic surgery on his face in an Interview with Entertainment Tonight. 

In this interview, Zac called the rumors “funny” and exposed that his different-looking face was due to a jaw injury in 2013, not any surgery. He says “My mom told me. I never really read the internet, so I don’t really care,”

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Zac continued, “It was funny. It sucks. I almost died, but we’re good.” he eventually broke his jaw and had to have his mouth wired shut. He explained that when he hit his face on the granite corner of a fountain, he lost consciousness. When he woke up, he found that his chin bone was hanging off his face. 

This Zac Efron's accident also tore his ACL, dislocated his shoulder, broke his wrist, and threw out his back. Later, he ended up doing physical therapy to rehabilitate the injury, but later he stopped for a time, which resulted in some facial issues. Zac told this to the magazine in September 2020. 

He explained that the muscles in his face work together “like a symphony.” so the masseter muscles in his face (which are used for chewing) had to work harder for his other facial muscles. As a result, Zac Efron's jaw eventually got really big.

While Zac was in Australia from 2020 to 2021, he took a short break from his physical therapy. He says around that time he also recorded a video for Bill Nye’s “Earth Day Musical” special for Facebook Watch, where his fans noticed that his chin looked very different.

At a certain time, he realized that they just got really, really big, Zac also told Men’s Health that he didn’t know the response to the size of his jaw until his mom called to ask if he had undergone plastic surgery. 

How bad was Zac Efron's accident?

As he explains “I almost died”, I’m sure it was really a horrible accident. After his physical transformation for 2017’s Baywatch,  Zac Efron revealed Men’s Health at the time that he began suffering from insomnia and depression. 

He says, “I started to develop insomnia, and I fell into a pretty bad depression, for a long time,” he continued, “Something about that experience burned me out. I had a really hard time recentering,” He also added, “Ultimately they chalked it up to taking way too many diuretics for way too long, and it messed something up.” 

In 2022, Zac again started to feel like his old self. He told Men’s Health That the whole Baywatch look wasn’t something he wanted to go back to. There’s just too little water in the skin and it is not realistic.  And for that look, he also needed to take Lasix, a powerful diuretic. He continued, “I’d rather prefer to have an extra, you know, 2 to 3 percent body fat.”

Zac also talked about his regret over his Baywatch body in a 2020 episode of Hot Ones. He said it’s just stupid, he is happy that it got him through it. He also said to take care of your heart, take care of your brain, you’re good.

When fans talk about his dating life, Zac told Cosmopolitan in 2017 that he frequently asks his younger brother, Dylan for relationship advice. He said at the time that if he date someone, one of the few people he need to weigh in on the situation in his brother. 

He further said, they live together, and they’re different in a lot of ways, but his brother is really grounded. His brother lived a more normal life than he did growing up, so his brother is a great barometer for him.