A perfectly coiffed Amber Heard looked unhappy as she scrunched her face up while speaking to someone in the courtroom, while attending the second day of the trial in the US, where her ex-husband and Hollywood star Johnny Depp is suing her for libel

Unhappy Amber Heard scrunches up face on second day of Johnny Depp defamation trial

Amber Heard scrunched up her face in a candid moment at the multi-million dollar defamation trial, where she is battling ex-husband Johnny Depp, in the US today.

The court case has entered its second day in Virginia, with the jury being selected on Monday, and the ex-couple facing each other for the first time in yesterday's hearing, with witnesses testifying today.

Cameras court the Aquaman actress, 35, dressed in a black and gold buttoned suit and tie, scrunching up her face, and apparently unhappy, as she listened to another female.

Johnny, 58, is suing Amber, who he divorced in 2017, for libel over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Post in which she discussed her 'experiences of domestic abuse.'

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Mr Depp’s lawyers say the article falsely implies Ms Heard, 35, was physically and sexually abused by him when they were married.

The article does not mention Mr Depp by name and, according to Ms Heard’s lawyers, is covered by the first amendment of the US constitution which protects freedom of speech.

Yesterday, Benjamin Rottenborn, representing Amber, said the actress had also suffered “sexual violence at the hands of Depp”.

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“You are being asked to decide a very simple question: were the words used by Amber in the 2018 opinion piece that was published in The Washington Post protected free speech under the first amendment or not?” he said in his opening remarks.

“The question is whether the words were protected by the first amendment, and the answer is very clearly yes.”

He continued: “The evidence for Mr Depp isn’t pretty… you’re going to see who the real Johnny Depp is behind the fame, behind the pirate costumes.

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“We’re going to focus on those words… whether you look at them individually or in the context of the piece doesn’t really matter, because they’re true.

“Tragically it’s true. Amber did suffer sexual violence at the hands of Depp.”

Mr Rottenborn added that the actress 'never wanted to offer up to the public who Johnny Depp was, but that is going to come out,” he said.

“He wanted to make her life hard, he wanted to ruin her life. He wanted to destroy her. And that is what he did.

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But Mr Depp’s lawyers argued that the allegations by Ms Heard were false and the actress was “preparing to give the performance of a lifetime” during the proceedings.

Camille Vasquez, representing Mr Depp, said the actor would “go to his grave knowing that whatever he does there will always be people who believe he abused a woman”.

“Ms Heard took on the role of a lifetime, she couldn’t back down,” she said.

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“She has been living and breathing this lie for years now.

Ms Heard’s Washington Post article was titled “I spoke up against sexual violence – and faced our culture’s wrath.”

The case is being brought in Virginia rather than in California, where the actors live, because The Washington Post’s online editions are published through servers located in Fairfax County.

The trial continues.