From freak accidents to Baywatch burn-out and those wild surgery claims - just what on earth is going on with Zac Efron?

Zac Efron has insisted he is 'happy and healthy' after being hospitalised complete nan weekend, but it's been a challenging clip for nan movie pin up.

It's not nan first clip Zac has deed nan headlines pinch his beingness health, pinch play surrounding nan prima since he changeable to fame arsenic heartthrob Troy Bolton successful High School Musical successful 2006.

This latest incident saw nan character successful infirmary connected nan statement land of Ibiza when he dived heavy into a excavation astatine a villa early Saturday.

Zac had taken successful 'a ample magnitude of h2o into his lungs' aft he made interaction pinch nan bottommost of nan pool.

The starring man had 'showed signs of distress' and was 'momentarily dazed' successful nan aftermath of nan incident, sources told nan outlet, astatine which constituent information officials rushed successful to assistance him.

The Ibiza mishap comes 11 years aft a near-death acquisition which saw nan prima slipping successful a puddle of h2o while moving successful socks successful his location and smashing his chin into a granite fountain, leaving his chin bony 'hanging disconnected his face'.

Zac later told Entertainment Tonight that he astir died aft nan freak injury, explaining: 'It was funny. It sucks. I almost died, but we're good.' 

The movie prima famously claimed nan mishap caused his changing appearance, which successful caller years has caused a flurry of speculation that he has undergone cosmetic surgery. 

Zac has ever denied he has had immoderate integrative surgery, alternatively insisting nan masseter muscles connected nan wrong of his look and jaw 'compensated' for his 2013 injury, leading to his changed shape.

The High School Musical prima moreover claimed he didn't cognize his translator had gone viral on social media until his mother told him astir nan integrative room rumours.

Despite each his efforts to bring truth to nan rumours, Zac has been deed pinch a caller batch precocious aft fans watched his astir caller hit, A Family Affair.

In nan romanticist comedy, which co-stars Nicole Kidman and Joey King, nan 36-year-old character is seen pinch a noticeably wider jaw and stockier facial features, and viewers person been speedy to constituent retired conscionable really different he now looks.

'Trying to watch #AFamilyAffair pinch #ZacEfron, but I'm measurement excessively distracted by immoderate he did to his beautiful face, why would he do that to himself?' 1 X personification wrote while watching nan caller movie. 

In December 2013 Zac again sparked room rumours after wearing a brace of acheronian sunglasses on The Today Show, to beforehand his task The Iron Claw - which saw him acquisition a drastic translator to play wrestler Kevin Von Erich.

Despite immoderate fans insisting nan sunglasses look was much grounds of cosmetic surgery, Zac insisted he had an oculus infection. 

It's been astir 20 years since Zac first shot to fame successful nan phenomenally successful Disney classical High School Musical.

He was nan go-to teen pin-up of nan precocious noughties but accelerated guardant to 2013 and life was staring to unravel for nan heartthrob. 

Zac entered rehab successful 2013, opening up astir really fame saw him rotation retired of power successful a earthy question and reply pinch Bear Grylls connected his TV show Running Wild a twelvemonth later.

The character explained his problems didn't stem from a dense activity load but from being famous. 'Pretty soon you request a societal lubricant,' Zac said.

'The challenging portion was ne'er nan work. That was ne'er it. It was nan benignant of in-between work.'

'The societal aspects extracurricular of it, I mean everyplace you spell location is property successful immoderate form. It tin beryllium everyplace and it tin beryllium confusing. You walk a batch of clip successful your house, going crazy.'

He added, 'It was getting to nan constituent wherever I was caring little for nan activity and waiting much for nan weekend, wherever I couldn't hold to spell retired and benignant of fto loose and person fun'. 

'But erstwhile Monday and Tuesday were difficult to get through, past I was like, ''Ah, this is bad.''

'I conscionable really ne'er again want to person to return thing from nan extracurricular into maine to consciousness bully astir my outside, to beryllium comfortable successful my coming skin. And that takes a batch of work.

'It's conscionable meditation, and stopping and slowing down your brain.'

Zac ditched nan partying successful favour of meditation and workouts but it was his dedication to his beingness wellness that saw nan prima acquisition different diminution successful his intelligence wellness successful 2017.

He revealed he fell into a heavy slump and suffered pinch insomnia while training for his 2017 film, Baywatch.

He told Men's Health: 'That Baywatch look, I don't cognize if that's really attainable. There's conscionable excessively small h2o successful nan skin. Like, it's fake; it looks CGI'd.'

Zac said he took Lasix, a diuretic, to thief execute his ripped look successful nan movie which yet took a toll connected his intelligence health.

He added: 'I started to create insomnia and I fell into a beautiful bad depression, for a agelong time. Something astir that acquisition burned maine out.'

'I had a really difficult clip recentering. Ultimately they chalked it up to taking measurement excessively galore diuretics for measurement excessively long, and it messed thing up.'

Zac has been unfastened astir his struggles complete nan past 2 decades, and this play said straight to nan reports astir his wellness by sharing an Instagram threat of himself moving retired arsenic he promised fans that he is 'Happy and healthy.'