The injury left him with a shattered jaw, requiring him to have it wired shut.

Speaking to"Entertainment Tonight"in 2022, Efron admitted, “It was funny.

I almost died, but we’re good.”

Zac Efron attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s “A Family Affair” at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood

“The masseters just grew,” he commented.

“They just got really, really big.”