By Chivis Martinez with material from the GMA interview
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In case you missed it, Kate del Castillo was a guest on Good Morning America today promoting her film, out on NETFLIX Friday. There has been drama surrounding the film titled “The Day I Met “El Chapo”. The big story yesterday was the revelation that Sean Penn, who accompanied Castillo on the clandestine trip to meet the capo in a Mexican jungle, was attempting to stop the film from using footage about his alleged cooperation with the United States government in catching Chapo.The film reportedly suggests that Penn alerted U.S. authorities to the fugitive drug lord’s location, this was after the meeting with Chapo arranged by Castillo in September 2015.
Penn’s camp suggests that if NETFLIX releases the film, “blood may be on their hands”. Meaning there may be retribution or as in the narco world it is said “A settling of scores”.
Furthermore, they contend the film is riddled with fabrications. Penn’s attorney’s asked at the very least, “remove any references to their client contacting (the Justice Department) prior to meeting Chapo.”
Penn sat on his interview for months, and released it the day after El Chapo’s arrest.
This morning in her GMA interview, Castillo said she had sex with Sean Penn, not Chapo as many wondered, but Penn. The startling admission about the Hollywood movie star who tagged along. Sean Penn.
From her interview:
"I never fell for him. We had sex. Okay. Sorry, but -- we're both adult, single and something was going on, but that was it. And it was business. And so there was sex but there wasn't a relationship. No."
She was asked “why wait until now to finally admit that you were intimate with Sean?”
She laughed and said “ Because nobody asked me. They were so stupid.They were all thinking I had something to do with El Chapo and I'm not bragging about that but I think it was all so calculated even that.”
Reporter: “Just one day before Penn published a storing in "Rolling stone" about the star's secret encounter, the drug lord was arrested. Now Penn strongly denying allegations he alerted U.S. Authorities. His spokesperson calling the notion a complete fabrication and bald-faced lie. He has seen this documentary and in "Variety" was quoted as saying there are profound inaccuracies. What's your reaction?”
“ I said the same thing about his article. So he has probably a point of view. I have another point of view. What is the truth? That I have nothing to do with him getting caught.”