Steroid-using ‘Liver King’ sued for $25M by deceived fans

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A bodybuilder who confessed to using steroids is facing a $25-million class-action lawsuit for deceiving consumers about his raw liver diet.

Brian Johnson, 45, is known as the “Liver King” for his claims that his ripped physique is due to chowing down on raw animal liver and bone marrow and doing shots of blood.

However, a rival bodybuilder and fitness instructor uncovered Johnson’s lies in a YouTube video, revealing that the organ-eater was actually taking $11,000 worth of steroids a month to look the way he did.

Johnson had long denied the steroid accusations but after the expose, he admitted the report was not only true but he still receives a small amount of testosterone every week.

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Since Johnson’s confession, Christopher Altomare of New York filed a lawsuit against the Liver King and his companies, Ancestral Supplements, LLC, and The Fittest Ever, LLC, the New York Post reported.

Altomare claims in the $25-million suit that Johnson falsely advertised his products and encouraged a “dangerous and life-threatening diet,” which caused customers to suffer from “severe” food-borne illnesses.

Johnson promotes his “Nine Ancestral Tenets” lifestyle, which includes the Eat Tenet of ingesting raw liver, spleen, hearts, kidneys, pancreas and testicles.

The suit claimed that he was “consistently” shirtless to “showcase his muscular physique” and portrayed “himself as the epitome of health.”

But in order for fans to maintain that regimen, they had to purchase his supplements.

“Liver King persuaded millions of consumers to adhere to, or abide by, the Eat Tenet by repeatedly making representations to consumers that his near-perfect physique, and optimal health, were solely attributable to his adoption of the Ancestral Tenets, predominantly the Eat Tenet,” read the lawsuit obtained by the Post.

“Yes, I’ve done steroids. And yes, I’m on steroids,” Johnson revealed in a Dec. 1 video.

Altomare is now claiming he and others would not have purchased Johnson’s products had they known about his steroid use.

That said, Johnson, stands by his regimen and has insisted his businesses continues to flourish.

“The Liver King brand has had nothing to do with my business success,” he claimed in a video. “My companies were already kicking a–, already successful before the Liver King public figure, growing at 50% year over year and still growing at the same pace after.”

Johnson added: “I fully own that I f—– up. All I can do is take extreme ownership right now, be better and lead myself to a better life as a better human.”