Former Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan has released a vicious tirade against ex-couple Johnny Depp and Amber Heard as they face each other in a US defamation trial, calling them 'supreme narcissists', trapped in a 'toddler-tantrum world'

Piers Morgan has blasted Johnny Depp and Amber Heard as a 'shamelessly deluded and self-obsessed pair of whiny wastrels', as the ex-couple face each other in court once more in the US.

The controversial presenter, 57, writes the actors are 'trapped' in their own 'horribly selfish, toddler-tantrum world' in his column for the New York Post today, as the trial began earlier this week.

Johnny, 58, is suing his former partner for libel over a 2018 op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post, in which she discussed her 'experiences of domestic abuse'.

Amber, 35, divorced Johnny in 2017, just two years after they married.

A year later the piece titled: 'I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath', was released.

Johnny launched the defamation lawsuit in 2019, asking for compensatory damages 'not less than $50million' as he claims the op-ed damaged his career.

In August 2020, Amber filed a counterclaim in response to his libel lawsuit, accusing him of creating a 'smear campaign against her', and asking for compensatory damages of 'not more than $100million'.

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Writing in his column, Piers described how there are 'so many things to be genuinely concerned about in our turbulent world', including the war in Ukraine and inflation.

He went on: 'I can honestly say that the number of f***s I give about this shamelessly deluded and self-obsessed pair of whiny wastrels could be written on the back of Mycoplasma genitalium, the planet’s smallest living organism and, appropriately, a parasitic bacterium that lives in our waste disposal organs.'

The case in Virginia, expected to last weeks, follows the biggest English libel trial of the 21st century back in 2020, where Johnny lost his case against News Group Newspaper after claiming The Sun had falsely labelled him a 'wife beater'.

Bombshell claims were made through the 2020 hearing, including allegations of violence from both sides, as well as grim testimony about a poo being left in the marital bed, a scene of destruction at the former couple's rented home in Australia and the top of Johnny's finger being severed.

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Speaking about that case, the former Good Morning Britain host said: 'My main takeaway from that repellent orgy of relentlessly revolting mudslinging is that they’re mutually dreadful and should be avoided by future romantic suitors like a gazelle avoids a pride of ravenous lion.'

'Depp and Heard hate each other with a passion that makes Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt look like an ad for loving harmony. At the heart of this hatred lies one indisputable fact: They’re both supreme narcissists. Literally.'

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He went on to accuse the pair of 'both playing the victim at a time when there are millions of real victims suffering from war, a killer virus, and crippling rises in the cost of living.'

Finishing the column, he wrote: 'I can’t think of anyone less deserving of my sympathy than this gruesome twosome trapped in their own pathetically delusional, horribly selfish, toddler-tantrum world.'