Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's wife claimed that her husband is a 'simple' man as she spoke out in her first public interview in more than two years.

American-born mother-of-two Emma Coronel Aispuro spoke to Telemundo about Guzman's trial in an interview that aired on Monday evening.

She said she had never seen her husband, a Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin, doing anything illegal.

"[The media] made him too famous. It's not fair.