Amber Heard has delightedly reflected on her "unforgettable weekend" after returning to the spotlight at the Taormina film festival in Sicily to promote her new film.
It had been a trying time for the Aquaman star after she was sued last year by her ex Johnny Depp 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 an intense six-week trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, 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 Amber certainly looked like she had put the past behind her as she attended the premiere of her first film since the highly publicised trial.
Taking place at the Taormina Film Festival in Italy, the 37-year-old actress looked thrilled to promote her new movie, 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.
Amber was sure to reflect on her experience at the festival, sharing a smiling Instagram snap of herself with a microphone in hand.
"Thank you for such an incredibly warm reception at the Taormina Film festival for my latest movie In the Fire. It was an unforgettable weekend. #InTheFire," she wrote in the caption.
The Instagram post comes after she admitted she has had to learn over time that she was not always "in control of stories other people create" around her, but vowed it would not stop her.
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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