Actor Oliver Stark has put his 9-1-1 co-star Ryan Guzman on blast for trying to defend his use of racial slurs. Guzman took to Instagram Live on Sunday to address recently resurfaced Twitter posts by his fiancee, Brazilian actress Chrysti Ane, who had openly used the N-word in the 2011 tweets.
She subsequently apologised, but then sparked another backlash by claiming she had felt comfortable using the slur because she had been in a relationship with a black man at the time, and “felt accepted by the black community”. “At the time none of my friends found it offensive, but I must say I didn’t fully comprehend the WEIGHT of the word,” Ane added.
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