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There’s a solid chance you weren’t familiar with the man known as “Liver King” at the start of 2022 unless you have a tendency to stumble down some fairly deep rabbit holes online. However, he became increasingly hard to ignore as the year came to an end.
For the uninitiated, Liver King (born Brian Johnson) was able to amass a fairly large social media following thanks to the impressively jacked physique he claimed was largely the result of the raw animal organs and other meat he routinely consumed in large quantities to fuel his grueling workouts. After achieving viral fame, he leveraged his platform to market a variety of products and cash in on the lifestyle brand he was able to cultivate.
However, those claims were met with plenty of skepticism. In May, Joe Rogan accused Liver King of using steroids, and while the influencer forcefully denied those claims when they were initially floated, the facade he constructed started to crumble at the end of November thanks to emails where he admitted to using HGH and other PEDs to get jacked.
It didn’t take Liver King very long to come clean and admit he’d subscribed to the steroid regimen that cost him over $10,000 a month. While he also claimed he has plans to go clean, that hasn’t spared him from the wrath of at least one person who’s accused him of doing them dirty.
According to The New York Post, Johnson and two of the companies he operates (Ancestral Supplements, LLC and The Fittest Ever, LLC) have been named as the defendants in a class-action lawsuit courtesy of a customer who says Liver King should have to pay $25 million for allegedly defrauding the customers he’s accused of misleading.
The filing also asserts the paleo-inspired eating regimen he hawked was actually “a dangerous and life-threatening diet” that had the potential to make those who subscribed to it while striving for similar Gainz susceptible to serious illnesses.
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It’s unclear when other plaintiffs will get the chance to get in on the action if they so desire, but it seems like at least one NFL player would be eligible to get a cut based on what he said after the steroid news broke.