Del Castillo disputes part of Sean Penn's 'El Chapo' article

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Kate del Castillo ended two months of silence about her and Sean Penn's controversial meeting with then-fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, saying Penn's account of an encounter with a Mexican military checkpoint never happened.

According to del Castillo, "they didn't go through any military checkpoint, much less one where government soldiers waved them on," The New Yorker reported.

Del Castillo told the magazine the scene was not in an early draft that had been sent to and approved by Guzman, and it appeared only after a Rolling Stone editor asked Penn to add a more detailed description of their overland journey.

Del Castillo had been contacted by Guzman's lawyer the previous year and entered into an agreement for her to make a movie about the convicted drug lord's life, and she had hoped to bring Penn on board with the project.

Mexican authorities are probing possible money-laundering involving Guzman and del Castillo's tequila business and have sought to question the actress, while saying she is considered a witness and has not been charged with any crime.