Entertainment | Sean Penn Sean Penn Wishes 'Rectal Cancer' on His Detractors Actor not pleased with critics of his Haiti relief efforts By Evann Gastaldo Posted Mar 5, 2010 8:21 AM CST Copied Sean Penn visits the US 82nd Airborne Division's forward operating base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Don’t get on Sean Penn’s bad side, or he might wish a very unpleasant death upon you. The actor responded to detractors who say his relief work in Haiti is just his attempt to take attention away from his divorce with the usual grace, the New York Daily News reports. “Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah,” says Penn in an interview airing on CBS this weekend. “But I'm not going to spend a lot of energy on it.” Read These Next Colleagues are heartbroken by murder of sports journalist. Mike Johnson says vote on health subsidies was 'not to be.' Jack Smith says there was powerful evidence in Trump criminal cases. 4 House Republicans broke ranks on ACA subsidies. Report an error