Actress slept with Penn after meeting with drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’

US actor and director, Sean Penn at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. Picture: AFP / Alberto Pizzoli.Source:AFP

“We’re both adults, single and something was going on, but that was it. It was business.”

Del Castillo — initially rumoured to have had a fling with El Chapo — revealed she instead bedded the Mystic River star during his misguided attempt to ­interview the infamous Sinaloa cartel leader.

“It was so stupid,” del Castillo said about her rumoured affair with the drug lord.

“They were all thinking I had something to do with El Chapo and nobody ask me [about Penn] — and I’m not bragging about that.”

The actor went public with the dalliance after Penn attempted to stop Netflix from streaming her three-part documentary about the meeting.

Del Castillo’s doc, The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story, revolves around the secretive set up between Penn and El Chapo — which led to a story

by Penn in Rolling Stone magazine.

Melanie Griffith, Goldie Hawn and Sean Penn. Picture: Charley Gallay / Getty Images.Source:Getty Images

When asked why she waiting so long to reveal the fling, the seductive actor said “nobody asked me.”

The film depicts the pair wining and dining as the Fast Times at Ridgemont Highactor seduces her.

“He said, ‘That moment when you touched my chest, I knew something would happen between us,’” del Castillo recalls Penn telling her in the documentary, according to The Daily Mail.

The actor added that when they got back from the meeting, “We were very moved so [it] made sense that something would happen.”

Penn has been fighting the release of the documentary.

The actor is in a rage about allegations that he tipped off US authorities about Chapo’s whereabouts — and believes that the release of the documentary may put him in harm’s way.

Penn’s lawyers have told Netflix execs that “blood will be on their hands” if they air the series. El Chapo was captured during a shootout three months after his meeting with Penn in the jungle.

“This is nothing but a cheap, National Enquirer-esque tale spun be a delusional person whose hunger for fame is both tawdry and transparent,” a spokesperson for Penn said about the film that premiered Friday.

Penn has been fighting the release of the documentary. Picture: Mike Coppola / Getty Images.Source:Getty Images

“It is reprehensible that, in their ongoing, relentless efforts to gain additional attention and publicity, Ms. del Castillo and her team who have zero first-hand knowledge have sought to create this profoundly false, foolish and reckless narrative.”

Penn’s account of that meeting was published in Rolling Stone one day after the drug lord’s arrest.

This article was originally published on the New York Post and was republished here with permission.