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 He went to kill a Cape buffalo. Instead, it killed him. 5 soldiers shot at largest Army installation east of the Mississippi. He shot a couple dead in early June, has yet to be caught. JD Vance in hot water over birthday boating trip. Report an error