![]() But I think that's what keeps me grounded." "I don't live for what other people say and that's why I've had so many problems in my life, because I just say and act the way I want and I don't have a. Si yo me voy de esta vida, I don't care,'" she adds. ![]() She's also not worried about what people think or say of her. ", 'It's going to be hard for you.' And he was right."ĭel Castillo considers herself a fighter and says she's moved past that part of her life. Her father warned her of the possible pitfalls of becoming a public figure, she shares, revealing that he told her, ''I don't want you to be an actress because I don't want you to suffer." Aside from suffering rejection, he alluded to the hardships of putting yourself out there and how it might affect her personal relationship with a partner or a husband. They are the closest family that I have," del Castillo says, crediting her parents, Mexican acting legend Eric del Castillo and Kate Trillo, as well as sister Verónica del Castillo for getting her past the Penn-Guzmán narrative. I would do anything for my sister and my nieces and nephews. The kingpin is currently serving his sentence at the maximum security prison, ADX Florence, in Colorado.Ī post shared by Kate del Castillo would do anything for my parents. 19, 2017 to face drug trafficking charges. On July 17, 2019, he was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. Meanwhile, Guzman was extradited to the U.S. So that's all that I want and all I need." I'm working, I'm doing whatever I want to do, and I have my family and I am safe and they are safe. That's how you come out of that hurting and difficult time, with love, and also when you know that you've done nothing wrong. "I will always appreciate that and I will never forget all the support. "My family and my closest friends have been so supportive, and you know, it was also very sh*tty for them," she explains to ET of the public fallout. This ordeal cost del Castillo work, as projects fell through, and she had to regain the trust of her fans. The investigation came to an end in 2017 when no evidence was found to support claims that she had received any money from El Chapo. The movie never happened and she felt betrayed by Penn, claiming she didn’t know that he was going to publish an article. After El Chapo's arrest, del Castillo had to face a media frenzy, as well as Mexican authorities - who subpoenaed her and opened an investigation for alleged money laundering. I felt like I was 7.Kate del Castillo Feels 'Hurt' by Sean Penn After Helping Him Meet Drug Lord El Chapoĭel Castillo has expressed regret over assisting the actor in meeting Guzmán in the hopes of getting a movie made about him. I am going to enter my country being proud of being a Mexican,’ and that’s what I did,” she said. “It wouldn’t have happened if I came in with my American passport. She had a tense 25-minutes or so when her passage was held up by authorities, but she was eventually cleared to enter the country. Although del Castillo has dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship, she defiantly insisted on showing her Mexican passport as she crossed the border. “I spent Christmas with my parents which was the most emotional time,” she said. He was succeeded in November by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which del Castillo took as an opening to visit her parents over the holidays. For me it was kind of tough to pay all the lawyers in America and in Mexico without a job.”ĭel Castillo said she was warned by her legal counsel not to return to Mexico while President Enrique Pena Nieto was in power. “I didn’t work for a long time because of my little thing,” she said. And when the “La Reina del Sur” production headed to Mexico for filming, she had to stay in Colombia while her scenes were handled through CG and a stunt double. Her inability to travel to Mexico cost her work, she asserted.Īt the time of the El Chapo visit, she was about to start work on the Netflix series “Ingobernable,” in which she played the first lady of Mexico. In 2017 she produced a Netflix documentary recounting her version of how her visit with Penn unfolded, “The Day I Met El Chapo.”ĭel Castillo said she was afraid to return to Mexico for about three years out of fear of being arrested because of her connection to Guzman, who is seen by some as a Robin Hood-esque character who aided the poor in rural Mexico through the profits of his criminal enterprise. “They didn’t call me to testify - I’m happy about that,” del Castillo said about the trial.
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