NEW YORK — Whoopi Goldberg has called out a film critic who targeted the Oscar winner for the way she looks onscreen in the film, “Till,” which premiered Saturday.

“There was a young lady who writes for one of the magazines,” Goldberg, 66, said on Monday’s episode of “The View.” “And she was distracted by my fat suit in her review. And I’m just gonna say this, I don’t really care how you felt about the movie. But you should know that was not a fat suit.”

Rather, said Goldberg, “That was me. Yeah. That was steroids. Remember last year? I assume you don’t watch the show or you would’ve known that that was not a fat suit.”

Goldberg said she takes no issue with someone disliking the movie, but she encouraged the critic to “leave people’s looks out. So just comment on the acting and if you have a question, ask somebody, because I’m sure you didn’t mean to be demeaning.”

“We will hope that she just didn’t know and now she’ll know the next time you go to talk about somebody, you can talk about them as an actor,” she continued.

Goldberg encouraged families to see “Till,” in which she stars as Emmett Till’s grandmother.

“It grabs a lot of people and a lot of folks are being erased from history books now,” Goldberg said. “And that is what systemic racism leads to.”

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LOS ANGELES — A court filing Tuesday from Angelina Jolie alleges that on a 2016 flight, Brad Pitt grabbed her by the head and shook her, then choked one of their children and struck another.

The descriptions of abuse on the private flight came in a cross-complaint Jolie filed in the couple's dispute over a French home and winery they co-owned that is separate from their ongoing divorce.

The allegations of abuse on the plane first became public shortly after the flight, but details were kept sealed in divorce documents and investigations by the FBI and Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, both of which found that no action against Pitt was necessary.

A judge gave Pitt 50-50 custody of the children after a closed-door trial in which the allegations were aired. But an appeals court subsequently disqualified the private judge for not disclosing possible conflicts of interest, nullifying the decision.

More details of the allegations were revealed earlier this year when a Jolie lawsuit against the FBI over a Freedom of Information Act request was made public.

The New York Times first reported the court filing.

The filing says that on Sept. 14, 2016, Jolie, Pitt and their six children were traveling from the winery, Chateau Miraval, to Los Angeles.

“Pitt’s aggressive behavior started even before the family got to the airport.” Later, it says, “He pulled her into the bathroom ... Pitt grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her, and then grabbed her shoulders and shook her again before pushing her into the bathroom wall.”

“Pitt lunged at his own child and Jolie grabbed him from behind to stop him,” the filing says. "Before it was over, Pitt choked one of the children and struck another in the face."

The document says he subsequently poured beer on Jolie and poured beer and red wine on the children.

Jolie gave an account of the flight to two FBI investigators in the days that followed. It appeared in a heavily redacted report later released by the agency.

The two had been romantic partners for a decade when they married in 2014. Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, and a judge declared them single in 2019, but the divorce case has not been finalized with custody and financial issues still in dispute.

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NEW YORK — After holding the film “Emancipation” in limbo following Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards in March, Apple will release the actor's next big project in December.

In the fallout of Smith's smack of the comedian, the fate of “Emancipation” — a $120 million runaway slave thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua — had been uncertain. One of Apple's most high-profile productions yet, the film had once been expected to be an Oscar contender this year. But an awards-season rollout of a film headlined by Smith, whom the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years, has obvious complications.

Nevertheless, Apple TV+ said Monday that it will debut “Emancipation” on Dec. 2 in theaters and begin streaming it Dec. 9.

The film’s release will pose the biggest test yet of how eager moviegoers are for a movie headlined by Smith, an actor who has generated more than $6.5 billion in worldwide box office.

In the film, Smith plays a man named Peter who escapes from slavery in Louisiana. It was inspired by the 1863 photos of a man known as “Whipped Peter" that first appeared in Harper's Weekly showing a Union Army medical exam of a mutilated man.

Until the slap, the release of the film had been expected in 2022. Smith resigned before he could be banned by the academy, but remains eligible for an Oscar nomination.

"My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable,” he said.

Smith has largely stayed out the public eye. In late July, he gave his most extensive comments about the incident in a video posted to social media in which he apologized to Rock.

From combined wire services.