Studies have emerged that the previous couple Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have new outlooks on life one 12 months after their brutal defamation trial got here to an in depth.

Within the new subject of PEOPLE, sources reveal that the exes are each optimistic now that their six-week courtroom battle, which uncovered surprising particulars of their five-year relationship and threatened to finish their careers, is way behind them.

After the Fairfax County, Va., jury largely dominated in Depp’s favor— discovering that Heard, 37, defamed the 60-year-old when she wrote a 2018 Washington Submit op-ed alleging she was a “public determine representing home abuse” — the three-time Oscar nominee declared he had his “life again.”

A Depp supply says he “closed the chapter” on the authorized battle within the months after the decision, heading to Europe to play exhibits with guitarist Jeff Beck (who died in January) and movie the French historic drama Jeanne du Barry, which debuted to nice fanfare on the Cannes Movie Competition in Could.

He feels extremely fortunate to do what he loves,” says a Depp supply.

It was additionally famous that Heard paid her ex $1 million in damages — a settlement negotiated down from greater than $10 million — final month, a Depp supply confirmed. (Depp is donating the cash to 5 charities).

She bought her residence in Yucca Valley, Calif., final 12 months for $1.1 million and traded the highlight for a quieter life in Spain along with her 2-year-old daughter, Oonah Paige, whom she welcomed in 2021 as a single mother or father.

Throughout the trial, Heard had acquired loss of life threats and have become the topic of merciless Web memes. “She simply needed to get out of the U.S.,” a supply says of Heard. “It felt like an excessive amount of chaos.”

After transferring to Madrid, the place she’s settled right into a life along with her toddler (whose father she has by no means revealed), “has new power and is concentrated on issues that she loves,” in response to a Heard supply.

A type of issues is Within the Fireplace, her new film about an Nineteenth-century American psychiatrist who treats a Colombian boy some assume could also be possessed by the satan, which premiered on the Taormina Movie Competition in Sicily final month.

“It’s a ravishing film in regards to the virtually supernatural impact and pressure of affection,” Heard instructed PEOPLE on the premiere. “I don’t wish to sound tacky about it, however it’s a film about love.”

Heard will return as Mera within the superhero sequel Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom, due out in December. Each movies have been shot earlier than the trial and although she has not booked one other function since, “she is hopeful she is going to get tasks,” says a Heard supply, who says she was confused even after the trial. “She is doing significantly better now.”

Throughout a press convention at Cannes, the actor was requested whether or not he feels boycotted by Hollywood after his extremely publicized authorized battles.

“Do I really feel boycotted now? No, in no way,” mentioned Depp. “However I don’t really feel boycotted by Hollywood as a result of I don’t give it some thought. I don’t take into consideration Hollywood. I don’t have a lot additional want for Hollywood myself.”

He later added, “I hold questioning in regards to the phrase comeback as a result of I didn’t go anyplace. As a matter of truth, I reside about 45 minutes away. So yeah, perhaps individuals stopped calling out of no matter their concern was on the time. However no, I didn’t go nowhere. I’ve been sitting round.”