Guzman, 57, was arrested in the northern city of Los Mochis on Friday (January 8), six months after a dramatic second jailbreak through a tunnel in his cell. He is now back in the same prison.
Mexican authorities said they intercepted a series of instant message conversations in which del Castillo, 43, brokered a secret meeting between Guzman, herself and Hollywood star Sean Penn in October, helping them trace the kingpin.
Del Castillo took to Twitter on Wednesday (January 13) to thank her supporters and wrote: “Not surprisingly many have chosen to make up items they think will make good stories and that aren’t truthful.”
She pledged to give her story in due course.
The warmth between the drug lord and the actress has surprised even Mexicans inured to the often stranger-than-fiction events of the drug war.
Guzman’s ties with del Castillo began publicly in 2012 when the actress, who has fronted campaigns for L’Oreal and Ford, wrote an open letter calling on the capo to “traffic in goodness” and saying she believed more in him than the government.
Copies of TV episodes of “La Reina de Sur,” del Castillo’s most famous role, portraying a fictional trafficker, were found in the safehouse Guzman was hiding in prior to his capture.