Here’s some photos of Zac Efron out and about on Monday. He doesn’t appear to have any bruises or scratches on his face. Zac had a sketchy few weeks. The last time we caught up with the former Disney boy wonder, he was catching fallout after his “full-blown melee” in LA’s Skid Row. Zac claimed to have taken the hardest punch he’d ever felt. His “bodyguard” started making up outlandish stories to explain the fight. The guy was trying to make Zac sound like a hero, but his tales only made the situation worse.
We heard last year that Zac went to rehab twice for cocaine addiction. He declared himself “healthy and happy.” TMZ reported last week that Zac never really went to rehab and only attended a few private therapy sessions. Then there’s the lingering mystery of Zac’s broken jaw from last fall. Did he really slip on a puddle and do that much damage? This week’s issue of In Touch spoke to a “friend” who says Zac broke it during a drug binge:
Zac Efron’s suspicious scuffle in Downtown LA’s Skid Row is just the latest of many bizarre incidents for the star. And insiders tell In Touch that after two reported stints in rehab this year, Zac is struggling now more than ever.
An insider shares with In Touch that just four months ago, it was actually a drug binge that led to Zac’s broken jaw.
Zac’s jaw had to be wired shut after he broke it in November, stating that he slipped in a puddle of water at his Hollywood Hills home. But the insider tells In Touch that he hurt himself during a drug binge. “He even does drugs alone,” the inside source exclusively tells the mag. “It’s sad.”
“Zac came out of rehab and almost instantly started using drugs again,” one of Zac’s friends reveals in the new In Touch, on stands now.
According to his friends, Zac knows he’s in trouble. “He doesn’t want to be some burnout Disney star, but I just don’t think he’s ready to stop the party,” a second insider tells In Touch. “He needs to get help before it’s too late.”
[From In Touch]
If this story is true, then it really is tragic. I’m not sure how accurate IT’s story is since this “friend” is paying lip service to Zac’s rehab that never actually happened (according to TMZ). I hope Zac takes the Skid Row incident as a huge wake up call and gets himself cleaned up for good. He did score a new role in an adaptation of John Grisham’s The Associate. Zac replaces Shia LaBeouf, who dropped out for unknown reasons. God only knows why.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet
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