Eugenio Derbez Is Disappointed in Lucero Over Her Hunting Activities: 'Nothing Justifies Killing a Living Being'

The scandal stemming from a series of photographs showing Lucero posing with hunting rifles and a goat's carcass hasn't stopped.

After social networks users harshly criticized the actions of Mexico's Telethon host, an annual event that serves to raise funds to support children with disabilities, now various celebrities have spoken out to express their discontent with the "Bride of America's" actions.

According to People en Español, Mexican comedian Eugenio Derbez expressed his opinion on Lucero's photographs which were leaked by TV Notas on Tuesday, Jan. 7, comments he had decided not to express before.

"It's very difficult to comment on this and many have asked me to on Twitter, and I didn't want to because I think that all of us working in show business love Lucero. But yes, there are definitely things one can't comment on and things that, even if she's my friend, even if I love her, sorry, but I'm absolutely and completely against what she did, what she's doing and hunting. I don't think anything justifies killing a living being and I'm completely against it," said the director of "Instructions Not Included" in an interview with radio show Fórmula Espectacular by Radio Fórmula.

"It saddened me greatly because I never imagined that Lucero was involved in something like this, and I love her very much, but this is unacceptable, not to a 100 percent, but at 300 percent. I don't agree and I hope she reflects on this, because we're living in a very violent Mexico and we don't need these kinds of images," the comedian added.

The controversy caused by Lucero's pictures has reached a point no one expected, to the point where the Mexican artist has been criticized abroad.

According to Sin Embargo, Lucero's hunting pictures might have cost her attendance to the Viña del Mar festival. According to this source, Virginia Reginato, Mayor of Viña del Mar sent an open letter to the festival's executive producer, Pablo Morales, in which she asks him to evaluate the decision to include Lucero in the annual celebration.

"I'm very surprised by the artist's presence in the photos and, as a defender of life and animal rights, I ask you to evaluate, as organizers and producers of the festival, the impact this information might have in its normal development," Reginato wrote.