Sean Penn on El Chapo Meeting: 'I've Got Nothin' to Hide'

Sean Penn is speaking out in a brief statement about his interview with the drug lord El Chapo.

The 55-year-old actor published an interview with the criminal, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman Loera, in Rolling Stone on Saturday (January 9), just one day after he was arrested again.

There are questions being raised about whether it was safe for Sean to conduct the interview and why he allowed El Chapo to have final approval over the article, even though he didn’t request to change anything.

“I’ve got nothin’ to hide,” Sean said in an email with the Associated Press (via THR).