NEW YORK: A prominent Mexican actress has added to the welter of criticism stacking up against Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn over meeting Mexican drug baron Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman last year.

Kate del Castillo accompanied Penn to a secret October meeting with Guzman in Mexico, an encounter that Penn turned into a 10,000-word article published by Rolling Stone magazine in January. The article came out the day after Guzman was captured following six months on the run from jail in Mexico.

Del Castillo grumbled in an interview with The New Yorker that the Hollywood star and ex-husband of Madonna did not reveal he was working on an article until she was translating his conversation with Guzman. Penn says he discussed his intentions in their first meeting and again en route to their meeting with Guzman, The New Yorker reported.