
Sean Penn hopes anyone who criticizes the work he has done in Haiti dies of “rectal cancer”.
The ‘Milk’ star, who brought 11 doctors to the earthquake-hit nation after establishing the private Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization in January with his businesswoman friend Diana Jenkins, says people who believe he is only in the country to raise his public profile are just wrong.
Speaking about his critics, he said, “I guess I’ve been so away from it all so I haven’t had an awful lot of time to pay attention to them. You know, do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah. You know, but I’m not going to spend a lot of energy on it.”
In an interview which airs this weekend on the ‘Sunday Morning’ show in the US, the Oscar-winning actor also revealed it was important his children – daughter Dylan, 18, and son Hopper Jack, 16 – visited Haiti with him to see first-hand the devastating effects of the earthquakes.
He explained, “Oh, they’re gonna help. I think that they’ve had the experience, as I have, that the first person served by service is the server. You know, there’s nobody in the world that isn’t looking for a kind of purpose in life, and tangible purpose is the most immediately recognizable. You know, there’s no time that you’re over there, there’s not something to do to lend a hand.”
The 49-year-old star, who was recently revealed to have saved the lives of a woman and child trapped and injured beneath a collapsed building in Haiti, has raised more than $1 million in funds for the Caribbean island. He said: “We were able to get X-ray machines, and ventilators, and do all kinds of things.”


