Mexican actress Kate del Castillo bluntly shares that during the filming for her documentary ‘The Day I Met El Chapo’ that she had sex with Sean Penn.
‘I never fell for him, we had sex. Sorry but we are both adults single, and something was going on but that was it, it was business’ she said during her interview on Good Morning America promoting her film out on Netflix Friday.
When asked why she waited to say something about being intimate with Penn she said ‘Nobody asked me, and it was so stupid they were all thinking I had something to do with El Chapo and nobody asked me and I’m not bragging.’
Mexican actress Kate del Castillo (right) says she and Sean Penn had sex while she was filming her documentary about meeting El Chapo
The drug kingpin had agreed to be interviewed by Penn in a meeting that was set up by del Castillo. The actress, who had been secretly conversing with El Chapo for months, had got Penn involved because she was making a film about the infamous drug lord
del Castillo admits she had sex with Penn, but that was it, there was no relationship that followed.
She also feels like she and Penn were in a very delicate situation while meeting with El Chapo. So much so that they put their lives in each others hands in the face of the notorious drug king pin.
She also says she was scared for her life with El Chapo escorted her to her room one evening saying she was afraid ‘He might rape me or kill me.’
del Castillo, Penn and two producers met with the drug kingpin back in October 2015 at a secret location organized by El Chapo.
Mexican authorities raided the site soon after they met by El Chapo had already fled.
Three months later after the meeting, El Chapo was captured during a shootout that killed five of his associates.
del Castillo opened up about sex with Penn during filming of her documentary out on Netflix
Penn’s infamous interview was published a day later in Rolling Stone.
El Chapo was extradited to the US in January.
The drug kingpin had agreed to be interviewed by Penn in a meeting that was set up by del Castillo.
del Castillo, who had been secretly conversing with El Chapo for months, had got Penn involved because she was making a film about the infamous drug lord.
It was the first and only interview the Sinaloa cartel leader granted after escaping from a maximum security prison through a tunnel just months earlier.