Daily Times

Guys don’t freak out, but a grizzly bear nearly attacked your boyfriend Zac Efron!

Obviously, and thankfully, he survived and he-and the work of Italian art that is his shirtless body-emerged unscathed.

The actor recalled the terrifying incident in a recent interview with People that was posted on Friday. He said it took place on his and younger brother Dylan’s recent trip to Montana to climb to the top of the Continental Divide. The two had visited Glacier National Park for a Columbia Sportswear ad campaign.

“Out of nowhere, (we were like) ‘Okay, that’s a bear. Everybody stop’. And we all stood still,” Zac Efron told People. “Somebody silently whispered, ‘But it’s charging at us’. It took like two big canters at us.”

Efron said the bear eventually retreated and “disappeared behind some trees”.

“It was the scariest part of the trip!” he said. “But it was cool to see a bear that close. It was maybe 15 or 20 feet away. It was charging at us!”

Zachary David Alexander Efron is an American actor and singer. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s, and rose to prominence in the late 2000s for his leading role in the High School Musical franchise. During this time, he also starred in the musical film ‘Hairspray’ and the comedy film ’17 Again’.

Published in Daily Times, October 19^th 2017.