Newly named CBS News star contributor Peter Attia was forced to cut ties with a popular wellness protein bar brand over his newly revealed, chummy emails with late pal Jeffrey Epstein.
The longevity influencer, 52, stepped down as David Protein’s chief science officer, the company said late Monday — as CBS News was reportedly weighing whether to also cut him from his gig there.
“Dr. Peter Attia has stepped down from his role as Chief Science Officer at David. We remain focused on serving our customers,” Peter Rahal, the founder of the protein bar company, posted on X.
Attia, who was a major investor in the protein bar brand, has since been scrubbed from the company’s website.
The move came soon after Attia issued a groveling apology earlier on Monday, saying he’s “ashamed” of the “tasteless and indefensible” emails he traded with the convicted pedophile years earlier.
The celebrity doctor was mentioned roughly 1,700 times in the latest batch of Epstein files that dropped late last week.
In one 2015 email, Attia told the sex pest, “The biggest problem with becoming friends with you? The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can’t tell a soul…”
He also fired off a stomach-churning email in 2016 in which the physician joked that “p—y is, indeed, low carb.”
Attia, who boasts 1.7 million followers on Instagram, insisted his interactions with Epstein had nothing to do with the pervert’s “sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone” and that he “was not involved in any criminal activity.”
“I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me. I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it,” the celebrity doctor said in a lengthy statement on X.
“I am not asking anyone to ignore the emails or pretend they aren’t ugly. They simply are,” he said.
“The man I am today, roughly ten years later, would not write them and would not associate with Epstein at all. Whatever growth I’ve had over the past decade does not erase the emails I wrote then.”
As of Monday evening, CBS News execs were weighing whether to cut ties with Attia in the wake of the backlash but editor in chief Bari Weiss — a longtime critic of cancel culture — was said to be initially reluctant to do so, a source told The Post.
Attia was named a new on-air contributor for CBS News on Jan. 27 — just three days before the new batch of files dropped.
CBS News has so far declined to comment on Attia’s future at the network.