My Nikon camera lens is crooked?

I think something happened to my camera lens. It was perfectly fine Last week but one day I went with it to school. I put it in my locker in its bag and locked it in. Later that day I took it out and that top ring before the filter ring had slanted a bit and the zoom ring was stuck.

My camera is a 18-55mm f/3.6-5.6 DX VR

I attached a photo of the camera without its lens cap so that you can see how slanted the top part is. How do I fix this if you know any site that can help me please link it?

It's been hit pretty hard from the front.

New lens probably needed as repair is often ridiculosly priced.

You can get a used one:

https://www.keh.com/shop/catalogsearch/result/?q=nikon+18-55+vr

You bent something.

Lens repair is something that MUST be left to the lens manufacturer
or an optical instrument servicer, and it is Far from cheap.

You can probably get a good used lens of the same model
for a lot less than the cost of having yours put back in proper condition.

The amount of energy it took to bend your lens would take at least a 4 foot drop onto concret.

Such damage may have also damaged the cameras sensitve components (mirror, shutter, sensor and maybe the lens mount on the camera itself

Take the whole kit into a repair shop and have them check it out. The lens of course is toast and will need to be replaced, however if the camera is also damaged, you may need to replace the whole kit with a good used kit from KEH.com

If you did not drop your camera, then there's a high possibility that someone opened your locker and in doing so, the camera fell out on to the concert floor

Yep, definitely dropped. You now must make a visit to the service center.

You dropped it. It needs authorized service.

Something hit the lens when it was extended. That is a cheap zoom lens, but some $50 cheap from an on-line photo store. They are usually replaced with something good and faster. You don't have to buy a Nikon brand lens, just a lens with a current Nikon mount. The "faster" lenses (F/2.8 zoom) are in the $300 price range used.
So long as the lens works and takes pictures properly, you might get buy. If the filters go on crooked, that will be a problem. Some of the lenses have that plastic front for the filters, again not a quality lens. The parts should be metal. It's amazing how many lenses get banged that you may not know about with it hanging from your neck or shoulder.

The lens is damaged beyond repair. If it wasn't dropped, then the stuff inside the bag probably crushed the lens. You have to understand that these 18-55mm kit lenses are very cheaply made in order to be sold for a cheap price. Nikon doesn't even make this lens. They contract it out to a maker in China so that they can keep the costs way down.

Consider this a blessing because now you have a great excuse to go out and get a better lens. Go to bhphotovideo.com to check out what's on the market. Then go to photozone.de to compare optical quality.

That lens is toast. You can buy a refurbished one online at a good price.
That serious of damage didn't just happen. It hit something hard.
Try another lens and see how well it works.

Something similar happned to me and I was able to rescue my Nikon DSLR with a bent lens by just clicking back into position! There are tutorial online, search for instance for "repair DSLR camera lens that is crooked". Hope that can also help someone else