Amber Heard spotted in Spain after fleeing the US following Johnny Depp trial

The actress has been spotted in her new home country, after fleeing the US following the damaging fallout from her bombshell trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp.

Amber Heard has been spotted in Madrid, Spain, where she is now living.

Amber Heard has been spotted in her new home country of Spain, where she recently moved with her young daughter.

The Aquaman actress, 37, is understood to have relocated from the US some time in April following the fallout from her trial loss against ex-husband Johnny Depp last year.

Heard, who is a mother to two-year-old daughter Oonagh Paige, was photographed for the first time in Madrid this week, where she was all smiles as she signed an autograph and took photos with a male fan.

Actress Amber Heard leaving her new home in Madrid this week. Picture: Europa Press/Mega

Heard was seen signing an autograph. Picture: Europa Press/Mega

People reported in April that Heard “couldn’t wait to leave the US with her daughter” to start a new chapter, after her reputation took a beating following the bombshell six-week trial against Depp in Virginia last May.

“The trial was beyond stressful for her and she just wanted to start fresh out of the country,” a source told the publication.

Heard is understood to have settled into a new home in Madrid. Picture: Europa Press/Mega

The actress moved sometime last month. Picture: Europa Press / MEGA TheMegaAgency.com

The source added, “She is excited about working and filming again. She was exhausted and disappointed about the trial. She felt she was mistreated.

“This is all behind her now, though. She has new energy and is focused on things that she loves.”

Despite backlash from Depp fans, Heard is reprising her role as Mera in the upcoming sequel, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, which will hit theatres in December.

It’s widely understood she has stepped away from acting, with one other ongoing film credit under her belt, In The Fire, which was shot prior to the defamation trial and doesn’t yet have a release date.

It comes almost a year after a jury ruled in Depp’s favour following the former couple’s highly publicised, televised trial.

A jury ruled largely in favour of Johnny Depp during the six-week trial in Virginia last year. Picture: Cliff Owen/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images

Heard was ordered to pay Depp $US10 million ($A14 million) in defamation compensatory damages and $US5 million ($A7 million) in punitive damages after the jury decided she “acted with actual malice” when claiming to be a victim of domestic and sexual violence in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.

The jury did agree with one aspect of Heard’s claim – that she was defamed by Depp’s lawyer who dubbed her claims a “hoax” – and awarded her $US2 million ($A2.78 million) in compensation and nothing in punitive damages.

After a back-and-forth appeals process from both Heard and Depp in the months following the jury’s verdict, Heard announced on social media in late December that they had privately settled the case.

“I never chose this,” Heard wrote on Instagram at the time. “I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed.

“The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are re-victimised when they come forward.”

Originally published as Amber Heard spotted in Spain after fleeing the US following Johnny Depp trial