Emma Coronel Aispuro, the third wife of Mexico's drug kingpin and Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, made her first television interview last Feb. 19. In the interview, which was then aired on Feb. 21, Coronel insisted that her husband is not what federal prosecutors were claming.

"He is like any other man, of course, he is not violent, not rude. I have never heard him say a bad word. I have never seen him get excited or be upset at anyone," Coronel said. She also mentioned how "El Chapo" called her "Queen" and she never saw Guzman act violently against her or take any drugs.

Coronel said that he never saw her husband holding any weapons or possessing drugs. "He would be incapable of touching a woman with bad intentions, of trying to make her do something she didn't want to do," she added.

Not Love at First Sight

Coronel admitted that she had a boyfriend when she met "El Chapo" at a dance in the small town of La Angostura under the control of the Sinaloa cartel. They met again several months later when she won the "Coffee and Guava Fair Beauty Contest" in Canelas with Guzman reportedly fixing the event.

At the time, the 58-year-old drug lord was a wanted man for escaping a maximum security prison in Puente Grande. However, he still was able to visit Coronel in her home, but claimed that no luxury gifts were given.

"I would say what won me over was his way of talking, how he treated me, the way we began to get along. First as friends and from that came everything else," Coronel said. The couple was married at Coronel's home in Canelas on her 18th birthday last July 2, 2007.

Fear for Her Husband's Life

"I am afraid for his life," a worried Coronel said. "El Chapo" has been in solitary confinement at a maximum security prison in El Altiplano since being recaptured last Jan. 8. His wife says that Guzman is being guarded by hooded and armed guards with many police dogs.

The leader of the Sinaloa cartel is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, drug distribution, kidnapping and money laundering in several U.S. states. He is also being accused of distributing at least 1.8 million pounds of cocaine from 2003 to 2014 not only to the states but also to other countries.

Coronel and Guzman have four-year-old twin daughters born in Lancaster, California. The loving wife of "El Chapo" has no plans of leaving him. She even said, "I will follow to wherever he is. I am in love with him. He is the father of my children."