A photo of Chad Michael Murray’s face before he injured his nose in “One Tree Hill” shocked fans.
Photos of the actor, 44, are circulating on social media showing before and after he had to have his nose reset when he was 18 years old.
In 2004, Murray revealed that he was attacked at a Burger King and had to have a nose job done as a result.
“When I was 18, I jumped into a Burger King and got my nose stuck on the wrong side of my face,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “There were three of us, so what were we supposed to do?”
“The doctors didn’t even do an X-ray,” he continued. “They just reset it. But it wasn’t a rhinoplasty. I hate it when people say it was a rhinoplasty.”
He mentioned his nose injury again in an August 2025 interview with Newsweek magazine, admitting that he felt insecure about some of his physical features.
“I don’t like my nose, because it’s not my nose,” he told the outlet. “I hopped to Burger King, got my nose done a few times post, put it back in place, grabbed two tennis balls at Cedars-Sinai, and that was it.”
A photo of the actor’s 1999 yearbook before his injury went viral on X, and fans are surprised by the noticeable change in his appearance.
One commenter said: “He looks like a completely different person, wow.”
One fan wrote: “Can’t be real he looked like this a year later on Gilmore Girls.”
Another fan said: “A different nose would completely change her face because she doesn’t look like a nun.”
Many commenters also praised his appearance after the nose injury.
One fan mused, “It’s funny how things that seem terrible turn out to be blessings in disguise.” “Before, he was objectively good-looking, almost to the point of being ‘too perfect.’ The nose after the break is more unique, giving him personality and edge, making him even more attractive. ”
A Reddit thread dedicated to the topic jokes: “Imagine being able to jump up and down. That would make you look better lol.”
For Murray, getting punched at Burger King wasn’t the only harrowing experience he had as a teenager. During an appearance on the Great Company podcast last August, he revealed that he suffered from a serious health scare when he was 15 years old.
“My intestines twisted and I was hospitalized for two and a half months. It was very difficult,” he recalls.
Murray said she suffered internal bleeding after undergoing surgery to correct the problem.
“I lost 50 percent of my blood,” he added. “I was on my deathbed.”
