Depp, Heard arrive for second day of UK libel trial

Actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard arrived at the High Court in London on Wednesday for the second day of a three-week trial over his libel case against a British newspaper.

Depp is suing British tabloid The Sun over an April 2018 story headlined “Potty - How can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?”

The newspaper's lawyers plan to use Heard's allegations of abuse by Depp to defend the “wife beater” claim.

The trial over his libel claims opened Tuesday.

It is one of the first major cases to be held in person since Britain began to lift its coronavirus lockdown.

Depp, 57, and Heard, 34, met on the set of the 2011 comedy “The Rum Diary” and married in Los Angeles in February 2015. They divorced in 2017, and now bitterly accuse one another of abuse.

While Heard isn't on trial, the case is also a showdown between the former spouses, who accuse each other of being controlling, violent and deceitful.

It is set to put the two performers’ complex private lives under a microscope.

Depp is also suing Heard in the United States for 50 million US dollars for allegedly defaming him in a Washington Post article about domestic abuse.

That case is due to be heard next year.