Sean Penn Has a "Terrible Regret" About His Conversation With El Chapo, but It's Not What You Think

Sean Penn Has a "Terrible Regret" About His Conversation With El Chapo, but It's Not What You Think, Sean Penn stands by his affair with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, no amount how abundant criticism he faces.

Mexican law administration captured the abominable biologic aristocrat endure week, and alone one day after did Rolling Stone broadcast an account amid the Oscar-winning amateur and El Chapo that appear the two had met admitting the actuality that he was a capital man. Penn's account anon sparked some controversy, which Penn now wants to analyze in an account with Charlie Rose set to air Sunday on 60 Minutes.

"There is this allegory about the appointment that we made, my colleagues and I, with El Chapo, that it was—as the Attorney General of Mexico is quoted—'essential' to his capture," Penn tells Rose. "We had met with him abounding weeks earlier...on October 2, in a abode boilerplate abreast area he was captured."

Penn believes it's the Mexican government's pride that was hurt, which in about-face affected them to acknowledge the advice about his meeting. "Here's the things that we know: We apperceive that the Mexican government they were acutely actual ashamed by the angle that anyone activate him afore they did," Penn explains. "Well, cipher activate him afore they did. We didn't—we're not smarter than the DEA or the Mexican intelligence. We had a acquaintance aloft which we were able to facilitate an invitation."

The Milk brilliant admits that he wasn't aflutter for his activity even admitting he believes the Mexican government capital to accusation him for its own shortcomings if aggravating to abduction El Chapo. As for why he capital to accommodated with him at all, Penn says, "This is somebody who—upon whose account could I activate a chat about the action of the war on drugs. That was my simple idea."

He continues, "We're traveling to put all our focus—forget about blame—we're traveling to put all our focus, all our energy, all our billions of dollars on the 'bad guy,' and what happens? You get addition afterlife the next day the aforementioned way."

Even admitting he has taken a lot of calefaction for his decision, Penn stands by it. But he does say he has one "terrible regret."

"I accept a affliction that the absolute altercation about this commodity ignores its purpose, which was to try to accord to this altercation about the action in the War on Drugs," Penn says. "Let's go to the big account of what we all want. We all wish this biologic botheration to stop. We all wish them—the killings in Chicago to stop...And how abundant time accept they spent in the endure anniversary back this commodity appear [sic] out, talking about that? One percent? I anticipate that'd be generous."

In added words, as Penn says, "My commodity failed."

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