Zac Efron spoke after He was reportedly taken to a hospital in Spain after suffering a ‘swimming pool incident’ in a villa in Ibiza on Friday night.
The 36-year-old High School Musical actor showed up for his Instagram Stories on Sunday to share a photo of himself working out shirtless, lifting weights while lying on an exercise ball.
“Happy and healthy, thanks for the well wishes,” the muscle-bound morning idol captioned the post.
The star’s message comes after sources… revealed to TMZ that the actor “was found inside the pool by two people who worked at the villa and who pulled him out of the water.”
His rep confirmed to the outlet that Efron was hospitalized “as a precaution” following the “minor” incident and that he is “recovering very well.”
Zac Efron has spoken out after he was reportedly taken to hospital in Spain following a ‘pool incident’ at a villa in Ibiza on Friday night (pictured 2024)
The High School Musical actor, 36, took to his Instagram Stories on Sunday to share a photo of himself working out shirtless, lifting weights while lying on an exercise ball.
He was discharged from the hospital on Saturday morning.
DailyMail.com has contacted the former teen idol’s representative for comment.
Efron’s rep was asked why he needed to be hospitalized if the problem was just minor.
In response, the rep did not reveal why Efron needed to be removed from the pool, but once again claimed the hospital visit was just a precaution.
Before the incident, she joined Dutch DJ Martin Garrix on stage during one of his shows.
The Disney Channel alum has been spending time in Ibiza and Europe over the past few weeks.
Two weeks ago, she spent an afternoon on a yacht with friends in Ibiza after a recent getaway to St. Tropez earlier this month.
The incident comes more than a decade after he “broke” his jaw when he slipped on a pair of socks while jogging in his home, causing him to smash his chin into a granite fountain.
“Happy and healthy, thanks for the well wishes,” the muscled morning idol wrote in the post.
Zac (seen left in 2007 and right in a behind-the-scenes clip from A Family Affair) spoke out in 2022 about his changing appearance, attributing it to a severe fall that “shattered his jaw.”
In 2022, he said Men’s Health Magazine who lost consciousness and woke up with “his chin hanging off his face.”
Efron said that when he was injured, the masseter muscles inside his face and jaw “compensated” for his injury, causing them to grow in size, hence his remarkable transformation.
He says this explains why he looked so different at the time. “The masseters just grew. They got really, really big.”
Following the accident, Efron has been at the centre of plastic surgery rumours, but the handsome actor insisted the changes are just a result of breaking his jaw.
The High School Musical star also claimed to be unaware that he was a huge topic of conversation on social media and had in fact gone viral for his different-looking jawline, until his mother called him to ask if he had had surgery.
“If I valued what other people think of me as much as they think I do,” she told the magazine, “I definitely wouldn’t be able to do this job.”
In April 2021, Efron began trending on Twitter after he was seen in a video for Earth Day! The Musical showing off a more prominent square chin and a more pronounced jawline.
In the clip, Efron excitedly called Bill Nye a “genius” after hearing that he and Justin Bieber were working on a fictional Earth Day musical.
This led fans to speculate that the attractive star had undergone plastic surgery.
Efron’s friend Kyle Sandilands also spoke out on his behalf, saying the Baywatch star would never do something like that and comparing it to an oil painting by one of the old masters.
The Australian radio host, who has known Zac for years, shut down the speculation during The Kyle and Jackie O Show at the time.
Zac Efron photographed at the Golden Globes in January 2018, three years before his downfall
“I’d like to know if he’d had any plastic surgery,” Kyle said, before telling co-host Jackie “O” Henderson that “of course” Zac hadn’t had any work done.
She then said that it wouldn’t make sense for the High School Musical heartthrob to undergo surgery because he’s already so handsome.
“It’s like having a Picasso and a kid finger-painting all over it. Why bother?” he said bluntly.
Last month, fans again raised questions about his appearance after watching his new Netflix film, A Family Affair, alongside Nicole Kidman.
