OWN's Love Is__ cancelation was "the right thing," says the women who accused co-creator Salim Akil of abuse

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"I did feel a sense of this is the right thing, this is correct response from the OWN network. This is a correct response to Salim and Mara and it felt like a bit of an acknowledgment of what I had gone through," says actress Amber Dixon Brenner, who sued Akil last month for alleged domestic violence and abuse. (Variety reports Warner Bros. TV investigated the allegations and found no evidence of misconduct.) Dixon tells Deadline that Akil's wife, Love Is__ co-creator Mara Brock Akil, knew about their affair. "Look, it’s a sad situation," she added. "It’s a terrible situation that I was ever in the predicament of having to call him out and her out. It’s tragic to me that these things ever happened. It’s tragic to me that my work was stolen and then misappropriated to their supposed love story. Honestly, the first time I saw the show, and we can go back on the record, my first reaction was I want my work off the television now. I want this off"