“9-1-1” actor Ryan Guzman is facing backlash from his co-stars and social media users after defending his wife’s use of the N-word and saying that he frequently calls his friends by racial slurs.

The whole situation began when Guzman’s followers found old tweets posted by his wife Chrysti Ane in which she admitted to using the N-word. Ane has since apologized for those posts, however, Guzman came to her defense Sunday via an Instagram live video.

“I have plenty of friends — Black, white, Asian, Indian, whatever they are, Korean — and we make fun of each other’s races all the time,” Guzman said in the video. “We call each other slurs all the time. We don’t get butt-hurt at all because we know the actual person, we know who each other are. We know that we’re not trying to bring each other down. So, what...