-Zac Efron recently chatted with the Daily Mail about life, fame, cars, Leonardo DiCaprio and more:
Leo DiCaprio told me, ‘Don’t do drugs.’
He just laid it out there. I’ve spent some time with him, and we were talking one day and it was kind of his way-out-the-door, last-minute advice. He said, ‘Oh, by the way, if you really want to mess this all up, try heroin.’ I said, ‘Thanks’, and he said, ‘No, seriously, that’s pretty much the only way you’re going to screw this up, and you shouldn’t go down that road – it will mess you up without fail. Do not do drugs.’ That was enough for me; that’s all I needed to hear.
Girls get hysterical around me; they rip my clothes and cry and scream.
I was at a premiere and there was a huge crowd that got completely out of control. A barrier broke and fans came rushing over and grabbed me. I was pulled in every direction. The security guards stopped the commotion and no one was hurt, but later that night I went home, took off my shirt and was getting ready for bed when I found a long fingernail stuck into my back.
I wasn’t a heart-throb at school; I was a geek.
I was into musical theatre, which isn’t perceived to be the coolest thing. There were guys who were 6ft 1in with beards and big muscles and I was a gawky 17-year-old, a skinny, awkward kid. I was a late bloomer.
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