Paula Deen dropped her agent Barry Weiner after the two had a fallout from her racial slur scandal, according to a Thursday report by The Associated Press.

"Paula Deen has separated from her agent," Deen's spokesperson, Elana Weiss, wrote in an email. "She and her family thank him for the tireless effort and dedication over the many years . . . Paula wishes him well in all future endeavors."

The New York-based agent had worked with Deen since 1999 and allegedly played an integral part in getting her on her first Food Network cooking show in 2002 - Paula's Home Cooking. Neither Weiss nor Deen gave an explicit reason for dropping Weiner. Deen wrote about her relationship with Weiner as well as TV producer Gordon Elliott in her 2006 book Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'.

"Barry and Gordon felt like there was a show somewhere inside this Paula character that could be very successful," Deen wrote. "They probably courted Food Network for two years trying to push me at them."

"Barry is affectionately known in my family as Barry Cuda. Perfect name for an agent," Deen added. 

Deen's dropping of Weiner comes in the weeks after many of her sponsors terminated their deals with the celebrity chef. Walmart, Target, Kmart, Sears and many other retailers have removed Deen's products from their shelves due to the racial slur scandal in addition to the Food Network firing. QVC also announced that they had no immediate plans to have her on the air but weren't ruling it out for the future.

Despite the racial slur scandal, Lisa Jackson, the former employee behind Deen's lawsuit, broke her silence in a Monday statement to CNN.

"This lawsuit has never been about the N-word," Jackson said. "It is to address Ms. Deen's patterns of disrespect and degradation of people that she deems to be inferior."

Deen has not commented on Jackson's Monday statement.

Watch Deen's Today Show apology in the wake of the scandal:

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