Amber Heard was keen to move abroad last year as she "just had to get out of the US" following her explosive defamation trial against her ex-husband Johnny Depp.
The Aquaman actress was sued last year by Hollywood star Johnny for defamation following a 2018 article for the Washington Post in which the Pirates of the Caribbean star's lawyers said accused him of being an abuser despite no names being mentioned in the piece.
Following a testing six-week trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, in which Amber became exposed to death threats and cruel internet memes, jurors returned a verdict in the actor's favour.
In December, Amber made the "very difficult decision" to reach a settlement in the case. And now it has been claimed that Amber picked up and left her home in California's desert town of Yucca Valley with her now two-year-old daughter Oonagh Paige and headed to Europe as she believed there was too much "chaos" in the States.
A source told PEOPLE that Amber "felt like a pariah" as she "lost the case and was treated as such".
The 36-year-old actress was first reported to be renting a home on the Spanish island of Mallorca before moving to an upscale neighbourhood of Madrid where she "gets more privacy".
It's added that it was in Madrid where the blonde found more privacy and a routine to keep her grounded and work through the trauma of the case.
Part of overcoming the trauma was settling the case with Depp and agreeing to pay him $1 million.
"The trial was beyond stressful, and she wanted to start fresh," said the source adding that Amber "has new energy and is focused on things that she loves."
This comes after Amber made her return to the spotlight as she attended the Taormina film festival in Sicily to promote her new film, titled In The Fire.
Set in 1899, the movie follows 38-year-old American psychiatrist who is called to solve the case of a disturbed child in Columbia after severe accusations that the child is in fact the Devil.
Speaking from the festival to Deadline, the actress explained that she was at the festival to "support a movie" and nothing else.
She told the publication: "A big thing I had to learn (was) that I'm not in control of stories other people create around me.
"That's something that probably I'll appreciate as a blessing further down the line. Right now, I just kind of want to not have, you know, stones thrown at me so much.
"I'm here to support a movie. And that's not something I can be sued for."
Continuing to discuss her long career, she added: "What I have been through, what I've lived through, doesn't make my career at all. And it's certainly not gonna stop my career."
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