Sean Penn has done a lot of shitty things over the years, but the one he’s worried about coming back to haunt him is his 2015 interview with now-imprisoned Mexican drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. (No one seems to care about the domestic violence allegations against him, least of all Penn.) That interview resulted in the piece Penn wrote for Rolling Stone that brought us the phrase “I am Sean’s dubitable paranoia,” as well as a hashtag, “#NoSeanPenndejos,” through which the people of Mexico mocked the actor for his self-important adventure in pseudo-gonzo journalism.
Mexican TV star Kate del Castillo—who set up and translated the meeting between Penn and Guzman—also called bullshit on Penn, saying in a 2016 New Yorker article that he failed to mention that he was writing an article about the meeting before it happened. Now Penn and del Castillo are at odds once more, this time over del Castillo’s new Netflix docuseries The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate Del Castillo Story. The documentary apparently suggests that Penn tipped off the U.S. Department of Justice to Guzman’s location before their 2015 meeting—a statement that could get Penn killed, or at the very least owned some more on Twitter.