Zac Efron has finally addressed rumours he got plastic surgery, after photos of his “new face” went viral on social media last year.
After he appeared in an Earth Day special with Bill Nye, fans speculated the High School Musical star had work done on his face, as his jaw appeared more swollen than usual.
In a new interview with Men’s Health, the 34-year-old set the record straight on the rumours, revealing the REAL reason his face looked different.
Zac explained that he shattered his jaw after slipping in his house and hitting his chin on a granite fountain.
The actor recalled waking up to find his “chin bone hanging off his face” at the time of his accident.
The Baywatch star told the publication that after the injury, the masseter muscles on the inside of his face and jaw “just grew” and “got really, really big”, leading to his transformation.
Zac Efron’s 2021 face transformation was caused because he ‘shattered’ his jaw while running through the house in socks.
“He lost consciousness, and when he woke up, he recalls, his chin bone was hanging off his face.” pic.twitter.com/q90Fl0Q0pO
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Zac admitted that he was unaware of the online speculation as to whether he’d gone under the knife until his mother called to ask him about the rumours.
In the same interview, the former Disney Channel star recalled falling into a “bad depression” after preparing for the 2017 movie Baywatch.
He said: “I started to develop insomnia and I fell into a pretty bad depression, for a long time. Something about that experience burned me out. I had a really hard time recentering.”
Zac continued: Ultimately they chalked it up to taking way too many diuretics for way too long, and it messed something up.”
“That Baywatch look, I don’t know if that’s really attainable. There’s just too little water in the skin. Like, it’s fake; it looks CGI’d. And that required Lasix, powerful diuretics, to achieve. So I don’t need to do that.”
“I much prefer to have an extra, you know, 2 to 3 percent body fat,” he admitted.
