There was a nasty war of words at LAX a few days ago between Sean Penn and Cuban actress Maria Conchita Alonso.
A verbal dispute erupted as the actor was standing in the lost luggage area after arriving from Haiti.
Alonso, in the baggage claim area to pick up her mother, approached him after recognizing her former co-star lover from their 1988 film Colors.
It didn’t take Penn long to recall that she had bashed him in an open letter last year for his “appalling” public support of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
The actress told Page Six, “I said, ‘I would like to talk to you.’ He said, ‘I have nothing to say to you…You have been saying a lot of things about me in the press.’ I said, ‘You are a communist, Sean Penn.’ He said, ‘You are a pig.’ So I said, ‘And you are a communist a**hole! Is it great to live the way you do as a communist?'”
She then rejoined her mother as Penn continued to shout at her as a crowd of nearly 60 people gathered to take in the unfolding drama.
Penn said of the incident, “The hostile woman was nonsensically berating me… She was uninformed and impolite to all the other passengers.”
The fiery Alonso related the story on Washington D.C. radio station WMAL. She told Steve Malzberg, “I do apologize for calling Sean Penn an a**hole. He is an intelligent man… But if someone calls me a pig, I am not going to turn the other cheek. But I don’t regret calling him a communist.”
Check out images from the gang flick Colors and listen to her D.C. radio interview after the jump:
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