Zac Efron Hospitalized After Swimming Accident in Spain

Zac Efron has been hospitalized following a swimming accident abroad. On Saturday, representatives of The Iron Claw star confirmed he was taken to a Spanish hospital after sustaining an injury while swimming. The news was initially reported by TMZ, which sourced Efron’s team directly. According to this initial report, the incident occurred in a pool at a villa where Efron was vacationing in Ibiza. Two workers at the villa had to pull him from the water before he was transported to the hospital.

Efron has already been discharged from the hospital, having spent Friday night admitted as a “precautionary measure.” As of now, no further details regarding the incident or the cause have been disclosed.

Efron most recently appeared in Netflix’s A Family Affair, a romantic comedy where he stars alongside Nicole Kidman. For this film, the filmmakers put Efron through various challenging scenes, including a staged Hot Ones interview.

“That sequence was a long time in the making,” director Richard LaGravenese told TheWrap. “I mean, getting it just right and getting the different pieces. And we wanted it to be most of the most current form of Zac. So, some things we staged, like his date, but a lot of the ones, really, was just sort of a rhythm thing that went with the music, and we just needed to show that he was a global star.”

“We had originally shot a full episode of the Hot Ones, which I’m sorry we don’t get to show, which was a full interview that Sean and Zac did together that was filled with a lot of funny improvs and things like that,” LaGravenese added. “But it was too time-consuming and we couldn’t put the whole thing in there. But that was part of what the opening was going to be.”