Kate del Castillo feels betrayed by Sean Penn: TMZ

Sean Penn inserted himself in Kate del Castillo's El Chapo interview, never telling her he was doing a magazine story and now she's exposed to life-threatening danger, TMZ reported quoting sources directly connected to the Mexican actress.

“She had no idea Sean was working with Rolling Stone to interview El Chapo. She says he sprung it on her minutes after they sat down with the Mexican fugitive. Sources connected with Sean say that's absolutely not true ... she knew about the Rolling Stone interview from the get-go,” TMZ wrote.

According to the sources close to Kate quoted by TMZ, “unbeknownst to her, Sean approached Rolling Stone Editor Jann Wenner, told him about the El Chapo meeting and got a green light to write the story for the magazine.”

The website reported that Rolling Stone gave Penn -and two other men called Espinoza and García- a letter making the assignment official, which allowed them access to Mexico with a certain amount of legal immunity as journalists, but they did not include Kate, which meant she never got such immunity.

TMZ added that Del Castillo feels betrayed by Penn because he “torpedoed the point of the meeting -- hijacked it -- spending the entire 6 hours on the interview, which she believes was a self-aggrandizing move on his part” and exposed her to extreme danger because the article “outed” her to the world.

On Monday the Mexican actress failed to show up at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles to testify about the case.