OAKLAND — A man who is representing himself in an alleged kidnapping case, put himself on the stand Tuesday and blamed the victim for coming on to him, and smoking methamphetamine in his car.

In a rare form of proceeding, Whittier Buck Buchanan, 60, put himself on the stand Tuesday morning in his own defense and said his testimony for the jury in a monologue form, instead of the typical question and answer form.

At times smiling, laughing or being animated with hand gestures and wide eyes, the 60-year-old man told detailed stories of his encounter with “Jane Doe” on May 2 in Berkeley and his past six felony convictions from a 1995 case of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation. In both instances, Buchanan stated that the alleged victims seduced him, and he portrayed himself as innocent, just trying to help.

Buchanan is charged with kidnapping to commit a sex crime, assault with the intent to commit a sex crime and failing to register as a sex offender after an address change, following the events on that day.

On the night of May 2, “Jane Doe” was sitting on the front steps of her apartment around 2:30 a.m. on Shattuck Avenue and Berkeley Way after a night out drinking at a party nearby. After being dropped off by an Uber driver, she couldn’t find her house keys when Buchanan approached her.

In her version, he was looking out for her safety and offered her a ride. In her testimony, she said she thought he was an Uber driver, but soon realized in the van that he was not taking her to the nearby Safeway, where she was planning on meeting her father who had a spare key.

In the van, she screamed and he allegedly covered her mouth with his hand. She went to the backseat in order to try to escape, and he allegedly told her to perform oral sex on him. She also gave him cash, begging him to let her go. She was able to get free and escape.

When Buchanan was pulled over, police found the meth pipe and drugs in his glove compartment. He claims it was Jane Doe’s.

In Buchanan’s testimony, he said he suddenly saw her light up a crystal meth pipe, and told her to go into the backseat and rolled down the windows. Then, her mood suddenly changed, and she became very frightened, and then seductive, he said.

“She looked at me, and that’s when the sexual advances came,” he said.

Buchanan said the woman offered him oral copulation after she told him that she thought he was going to kill her. He told her he just picked her up to offer her a ride.

“I wanted her to be safe,” he testified.

He said she had allegedly told him she had been sexually assaulted earlier that evening, and consoled her when she said her boyfriend would be mad at her. The cash he had from her was for gas money to pay for the ride.

He testified she fell over off her seat at some point, and told him she was very drunk. He described her exit from the van as sudden.

“All the sudden, Jane Doe gets out, and she starts screaming,” he said, imitating the screaming sound for the court. “I said ‘OK, I’m out of here. Hasta la vista.'”

Regarding his other convictions of rape, Buchanan went into a detailed story, even telling the jury what he had for dinner, what card game he played at a bar that night of the incident in November 1995 in Oakland.

Similar to his story with Jane Doe, he claimed the woman had seduced him, and had invited him over to her apartment for drinks for her birthday. He said she too suddenly disappeared from her own place and came back later with police officers.

He was convicted of the crimes in March 1996 and served a prison sentence.