LOS ANGELES: Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who met with drug baron Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman alongside Sean Penn in October, said she is angry with the US star for using the opportunity for his own glory.

Del Castillo has been in the spotlight since it was revealed that she arranged the meeting between herself, Guzman and Penn, which occurred three months before the Sinaloa drug cartel leader’s capture.

The 43-year-old actress, who has dual US-Mexican citizenship, shared her version of the events in an interview aired Friday on ABC News from her home in Los Angeles, in her first televised appearance since her link to the drug kingpin was revealed.

“I think he was never interested in the movie,” she said, but instead used the meeting as fodder for his article in Rolling Stone magazine, a much mocked 10,000-word piece about their adventure.

Asked whether she was angry with Penn, Del Castillo responded: “Yes, a little bit, I am.”

The actress said she had agreed to embark on the movie because “I’m not gonna wait for Steven Spielberg to call me, you know?“